r328: *** empty log message ***

[ctsim.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1da3fcb3766d2e39548cfd1d769bc307e1c48105..e2fd6c6fa98977fcdc469e155e1636c2a581e376 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,45 @@
-0.5.3 - May 11, 2000
-Numerous bug fixes
-Added Microsoft Windows compatibility
+Version 3.0alpha Features
 
-0.5.0 - April 27, 2000
-This is the first open source release
+* Creation of arbitrary filter images
+
+* All features of command line tools are now in graphical ctsim program!
+
+* Complex-valued image files now supported, lots of image math
+ functions added including fourier transformations
+
+* Visual and statistical image comparision functions
+
+* 2D plots of row and column data of single and comparison images
+
+ 
+Version 2.5 of CTSim has been released!
+
+New Features of CTSim version 2.5:
+
+- Now compiles with Microsoft Visual C++.
+
+- First Microsoft Windows graphical user interface
+
+- Bug fixes and modest documentation and program improvements over version 2.0
+
+
+
+New Features of CTSim version 2.0:
+
+- Entire code-base cleaned up, re-written, and converted from C to C++.
+
+- Graphical user interface now included! Animation of projection and
+  reconstruction processes. Displays projection and image files. Uses
+  platform-independent wxWindows library so can run on UNIX and 
+  Microsoft Windows platforms.
+
+- Integrated G2 library for graphical display from command line tools
+  (UNIX only)
+
+- Added frequency-based filtering. Can provide significant speed-up
+  in reconstructions compared to convolution-based filtering.
+
+- Added highly-optimized backprojection method (idiff3)
+
+- New command-line tools added for image statistics and comparisons with
+  both text and graphical outputs.