Mark J. Stock

Use ZLib to compress PNG and VTU file output

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XML-based VTK files can use one of three compression algorithms for data arrays (LZ4, ZLib, LZMA), and PNG writing can use only ZLib. We should support zlib compression for png...

There is a simple and standard format for airfoils (wing sections) which we should support, see https://m-selig.ae.illinois.edu/ads/coord_database.html or http://www.airfoiltools.com/ for many examples. It would be nice if our json format...

Would be nice for bodies to shed visual particles to illustrate wakes

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If every boundary element had a small chance every time step of generating a new inert particle. we could visualize wakes more interestingly (to many people) than with vorticity. It...

We can't use Vc-accelerated methods on Windows because of a mismatch in the calling conventions between Vc (which requires `vectorcall`) and whatever Visual Studio uses. This makes the Windows version...

Drag and drop not working in Fedora/Firefox

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I'm having no luck dropping an STL into the window at partmill.com. It just says "You have chosen to open test.stl" and then all I can do is save it...

Yours is the most readable MPI manual I've found - thank you! I was hoping to see MPI_File_write.

Tar file should untar into its own directory

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It is common for tar and tar.gz (and .zip) files on Linux to always unpack into a single subdirectory in cwd. So many projects do this that it is surprising...

Unzip/untar on Linux should be into like-named directory, not dumped in cwd

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When unzipped, most zip, tar, bz2 archives create a new directory named the same as the zip file. When that doesn't happen, a user's cwd gets polluted with a bunch...