🎉 Release - v1.0.0

After more than 15k+ Lines of code, and In celebration of the WebCT academic paper accepted into preprint in Tomography of Materials and Structures, WebCT has managed to achieve all the original set goals a group of people imagined possible while chatting in a Costa.

Special thanks to everyone involved with the project, especially the developers of both gVirtualXRay and CIL, of which WebCT is based on!

✨ Features:

• Laminography (#109)
  • Added Laminography mode. This mode rotates the rotation axis rather than the sample, making it great for low-profile objects.
    • This is done by rotating the scene rather than root node in gVXR if the boolean is enabled, along with passing the new rotation vector to CIL.

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• General Input Validation (#40)
  • Full web-side validation for all inputs, along with descriptive help text and visible validation states.

• Uploading a sample adds it automatically (#112)
  • Sample label is now required for both uploading and selecting existing samples
  • Changed section titles to make more sense
    • "Available Models" -> "Use Existing Model"
    • "Upload Model" -> "Upload a new Model"

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• Power, Magnification, and Voxel Size are now visible in the UI
  • Equations for generating each attribute can be seen if you hover over with a mouse

• Detector preview now behaves better:
  • Changes to detector shape are marked in yellow
  • New areas are filled in yellow
  • Now supports previewing cropping for both height and width at the same time

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• Update to CIL 24.3.0

⚙ Changed parameters:

• Intensity and Exposure input positions have been swapped
• Mark regularisation Alpha as non-advanced
• Mark Non-negativity as advanced (it's enabled by default)

💄 Cosmetic Changes

• Dropdown indicator on Projection Settings (#99)

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• Renamed "Simulate Capture" to "Generate X-rays" (#107)
  • Also changed the colour from blue to orange

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🐛 Bug Fixes:

• Sample rotation settings now correctly alter the rotation axis (#104)
• Extend CIL version link to include "by"
• Fix client TV alpha not being correctly updated from server
• Delay transition from loading state to a minimum of seconds, even in the case of client-side validation issues.
• Photon starvation image now aligns with Transmission graph (#114)
  • Highlight anything within the 5-6% bin as red, rather than 4%-5%
  • Previously, only transmission areas under 5% were highlighted, causing a discontinuity with the graph and photon starvation image. This should hopefully now be fixed.
  • Additionally, transmission graph axis labels have been changed to be more clear, along with the tooltip now displaying the total number of pixels in each bin.

🚨 Known Bugs:

(Please see current bugs on the issue tracker)

• There is currently a very large performance issue regarding noise on Windows systems, a fix is currently in the works

❓ What's Next?

• The Next version of WebCT (v1.1.0) is focused around adding in Digital Twins support, including detector saturation (#70), focal spot graphs, calibrated flux, and more!
• More user-side guardrails will be added, along with better support for non-NVIDIA setups

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As always, please feel free to report bugs to the issue tracker, or if there's any features that WebCT needs! There are still quite a few rough edges, especially on systems I can't test on, so every feedback helps!