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GPlates Portable Changelog

What's new in GPlates Portable 1.5.0 Build 16091

Feb 14, 2015
  • Projects:
  • Save and restore your sessions with project files.
  • New kinematics tool:
  • Displays table of latitude, longitude, velocity, and velocity-related quantities for a given lat-lon point, plate ID, and range of times.
  • Displays graph of above quantities against time.
  • Exports table to text file.
  • Kinematic tool settings dialog to change details of the velocity calculations.
  • Kinematic tool settings are saved in user preferences.
  • Auto-fills point data from focussed feature.
  • Auto-fills time ranges from animation settings.
  • Import and export GeoJSON format feature collections.

New in GPlates Portable 1.4.0 Build 15234 (Apr 18, 2014)

  • Export numerical and colour reconstructed rasters:
  • Exports each visible raster layer to a separate raster file.
  • User specified latitude/longitude export region and pixel resolution.
  • Numerical export writes floating-point data:
  • Supported raster formats: NetCDF, GMT NetCDF, GeoTIFF and Erdas Imagine.
  • Standard use of not-a-number (NaN) for pixels not covered by reconstructed raster.
  • Colour export:
  • New supported colour raster formats: GeoTIFF and Erdas Imagine.
  • Uses per-layer colour palette as needed.
  • Includes surface relief lighting.
  • Import raster improvements:
  • New import raster formats: ERMapper, Erdas Imagine and GeoTIFF.
  • Imports georeferencing from source raster file.
  • Supports inbuilt raster spatial reference system:
  • Includes projections (for example, Lambert Conformal Conic).
  • Improved performance when importing very large rasters and displaying in 2D map views.
  • New Move Pole canvas tool:
  • Supports Modify Reconstruction Pole canvas tool:
  • by allowing user to specify location of pole used for rotation adjustments.
  • Drag pole location with mouse or enter text coordinates.
  • Optionally constrain pole location to moving/fixed stage pole of clicked feature.
  • Includes tracking stage pole over time.
  • Velocity smoothing near plate boundaries.
  • Mid-ocean ridges:
  • Supports spreading asymmetry.
  • More accurate half-stage rotation.
  • Needed in some rare cases.
  • Volume visualisation of 3D scalar fields (continued early preview functionality):
  • To be officially released in GPlates 1.5.
  • This release (1.4) adds preview functionality (since 1.3) available to advanced users:
  • Requires the "--enable-scalar-field-import" command-line switch to enable scalar field import.
  • For example, "cd C:\Program Files (x86)\GPlates\GPlates 1.4.0" and "gplates-1.4.0.exe --enable-scalar-field-import".
  • Enables menu item 'File -> Import -> Import 3D Scalar Field...'
  • Preliminary support for 'regional' (non-global) scalar fields.
  • Colour palette improvements:
  • Optionally remap scalar/gradient palette range.
  • Adjust range using mean and standard deviation of scalar field.
  • Supports transparent colours for isosurface and cross sections.