Release Notes

Release 2.0 (2017-07-08)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

• xjtu/mcaseislet: Seislet-based morphological component analysis

 using scale-dependent exponential shrinkage (Yang and Fomel)

• tccs/aii: Structure-constrained relative acoustic impedance using

 stratigraphic coordinates (Karimi)

• jlu/riesz: Seismic dip estimation based on the two-dimensional

 Hilbert transform and its application in random noise attenuation
 (Liu, Chen, Wang, Liu, Wang, and Zhang)

• sep/balance: Iterative least-square inversion for amplitude

 balancing (Berlioux and Harlan)

• sep/elliptic2: The double-elliptic approximation in the group and

 phase domains (Dellinger and Muir)

• sep/sparse2: Test case for PEF estimation with sparse data II

 (Brown, Claerbout, and Fomel)

• tccs/vscan: Velocity analysis using similarity-weighted semblance

 (Chen, Liu, and Chen)

• tccs/group3: On anelliptic approximations for qP velocities in TI

 and orthorhombic media (Sripanich and Fomel)

• tccs/dbortho: Iterative deblending with multiple constraints based

 on shaping regularization (Chen)

• lju/vdseislet: Signal and noise separation in prestack seismic data

 using velocity-dependent seislet transform (Liu, Fomel, and Liu)

• tccs/fraclapl: Viscoacoustic modeling and imaging using low-rank

 approximation (Sun, Zhu, and Fomel)

• tccs/svmf: Deblending using a space-varying median filter (Chen)
• tccs/shemd: Random noise attenuation by a selective hybrid approach

 using f-x empirical mode decomposition (Chen, Gan, Liu, Yuan,
 Zhang, and JIn) 

• tccs/orthogroll: Ground-roll noise attenuation using a simple and

 effective approach based on local bandlimited orthogonalization
 (Chen, Jiao, Ma, Chen, Zhou, and Gan)

• tccs/intshape: Seismic data interpolation using nonlinear shaping

 regularization (Chen, Zhang, and Mo)

• tccs/dsd: Double sparsity dictionary for seismic noise attenuation

 (Chen, Ma, and Fomel)

• sep/geostat: Multiple realizations using standard inversion

 techniques (Clapp)

• tongji/qswave: Simulating propagation of separated wave modes in

 general anisotropic media, Part II: qS-wave propagators (Cheng and
 Kang)

• tccs/onestep: Lowrank one-step wave extrapolation for reverse-time

 migration (Sun, Fomel, and Ying)

• tongji/decoupledpropagation: Simulating propagation of decoupled

 elastic waves using low-rank approximate mixed-domain integral
 operators for anisotropic media (Cheng, Alkhalifah, Wu, Zou, and
 Wang)

• tccs/interval: Theory of interval traveltime parameter estimation in

 layered anisotropic media (Sripanich and Fomel)

• tccs/decomp: Elastic wave-vector decomposition in heterogeneous

 anisotropic media (Sripanich, Fomel, Sun, and Cheng)

• tccs/hyper3: 3D generalized nonhyperboloidal moveout approximation

 (Sripanich, Fomel, Stovas, and Hao)

• tccs/pi: Analytical path-summation imaging of seismic diffractions

 (Merzlikin and Fomel)

• tccs/ovc: Diffraction imaging and time-migration velocity analysis

 using oriented velocity continuation (Decker, Merzlikin, and Fomel)

To SCons:

• splitting auxiliary inputs when split= involves 'omp' or 'mpi'
• Upgraded to scons-2.5.1

To documentation:

To APIs:

• name= parameter in File for Python API
• Julia API

To the Python package:

To programs:

• user/zdzhang: New contributor (Zhendong Zhang)
• splitting auxiliary inputs in sfomp and sfmpi
• set delrt in trace headers in sfsegywrite
• header= parameter in sfcsv2rsf
• user/kregimbal: New contributor (Kelly Regimbal)
• user/dmerzlikin: New contributor (Dmitrii Merzlikin)
• user/sbader: New contributor (Sean Bader)
• char to int conversion in sfdd

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

• Fixed links to the data files in the case of a non-default data server

In documentation:

• Fixed file names in selfdocs

In APIs:

• Fixed memory bug in stretch.c

In the Python package:

• Fixed parsing of comments in Fortran-90 programs

In programs:

• Fixed segmentation fault for sffft1 with no FFTW and no OMP
• Fixed case n1 > n2 in sfsvd
• Fixed join over a different axis in sfomp and sfmpi
• Fixed mwt= parameter in sfconjgrad
• Fixed half-order differentiation in sfslant
• Fixed offset handling in sfinmo

In the build system:

• Fixed installation of the gallery scripts
• Improved configuration for Fortran-90 programs
• Fixed Java API installation on Linux

Release 1.7 (2014-04-13)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

• tccs/sglowrank: Lowrank seismic wave extrapolation on a staggered grid (Fang, Fomel, Du, and Hu)
• xjtu/primer: A numerical tour of wave propagation (Yang)
• Moved rsf/usp/data to data/freeusp/land and added elevation statics
• tongji/lrmode: Fast algorithms for elastic-wave-mode separation and vector decomposition using low-rank approximation for anisotropic media (Cheng and Fomel)
• tccs/deblend: Iterative deblending of simultaneous-source seismic data using seislet-domain shaping regularization (Chen, Fomel, and Hu)
• tccs/time2depth2: A robust approach to time-to-depth conversion and interval velocity estimation from time migration in the presence of lateral velocity variations (Li and Fomel)
• tccs/nmodeblend: Deblending using normal moveout and median filtering in common-midpoint gathers (Chen, Yuan, Jin, Chen, and Zhang)
• tccs/synwav: Time-frequency analysis of seismic data using synchrosqueezing wavelet transform (Chen, Liu, Chen, Li, and Wang)
• sep/txamo: The time and space formulation of azimuth moveout (Fomel and Biondi)
• jlu/txyapf: Adaptive prediction filtering in t-x-y domain for random noise attenuation using regularized nonstationary autoregression (Liu, Liu, and Liu)
• sep/shearer: Earthquake stacks at constant offset (Claerbout)
• sep/super: A prospect for super resolution (Claerbout)
• trip/asg: Acoustic staggered grid modeling in IWAVE (Symes)
• tccs/synth: Carbonate reservoir characterization using seismic diffraction imaging (Decker, Janson, and Fomel)
• sep/avo: Seismic AVO analysis of methane hydrate structures (Ecker and Lumley)
• tccs/scan3: A fast algorithm for 3D azimuthally anisotropic velocity scan (Hu, Fomel, and Ying)
• sep/passive: Passive seismic imaging applied to synthetic data (Rickett and Claerbout)
• tccs/ortho: Random noise attenuation using local signal-and-noise orthogonalization (Chen and Fomel)
• tccs/strat: Stratigraphic coordinates, a coordinate system tailored to seismic interpretation (Karimi and Fomel)
• sep/aal: When is anti-aliasing needed in Kirchhoff migration? (Bevc and Lumley)
• sep/pefmult: Multiple suppression using prediction-error filter (Sun)
• xjtu/gpufwi: A graphics processing unit implementation of time-domain full-waveform inversion (Yang, Gao, and Wang)

To SCons:

• Added SLURM support for running MPI jobs through SCons
• Added usedatapath= in Fetch for placing downloaded data in DATAPATH by default
• Upgraded to scons-2.3.4
• Allow Fetch to run with top=None

To documentation:

To APIs:

To the Python package:

• sfbatch: script for submitting jobs to a cluster queue system
• Changed MPIRUN from a command-line option to a configure option
• Updated sunrpc configuration for the current version of Cygwin on Windows
• vpannotate: interactive wrapper for annotations with sfbox

To programs:

• Added new color schemes (color= in sfgrey): lb (Light-Bartlein), gist_earth, spectral, seismic, owb (orange-white-black), rwb (red-white-black), izoaz (isoluminant for azimuth data), montag (spectral lightness rainbow)
• sfipick: example Tkinter script for interactive picking
• sfvelan: interactive velocity picking using matplotlib
• Added x0= and mwt= parameters in sfconjgrad
• Added griddash= parameter to stdplot
• sflas2rsf: Convert LAS-2 well logs to RSF
• Added segy= and desc= parameters to sfheaderattr
• Renamed sfsvd sfpysvd and fixed sizes for output vectors
• Enabled depth= option for sfgraph with lines
• user/junyan: New contributor (Jun Yan)
• Added inv= flag in sfheaderwindow
• Added polyneg= flag in sfwiggle
• Added key= and nkey= parameters to sfheadermath
• sfcerf: complex error function
• color scheme can be specified by file name

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

In documentation:

In APIs:

• Fixed __array_wrap__ bug in Python API
• Fixed bug in framenum with no label1 in stdplot
• Fixed occassional nan generated in sf_randn_one_bm

In the Python package:

In programs:

• Fixed output size bug in sfinttest1
• Fixed memsize definition bug in sfrotate and sfreverse
• Fixed handling of mask and offset files in sfnmo
• Fixed memory allocation bug in sfkirmod_newton

In the build system:

• Fixed MEXSUFFIX for 64-bit Macs
• Added '.exe' suffix for python programs in Cygwin
• Updated gdpen compilation for new versions of FFMPEG

Release 1.6 (2014-05-09)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

• gallery: migration gallery
• Moved jsg to tccs
• tccs/buttefly: A fast butterfly algorithm for generalized Radon transforms (Hu, Fomel, Demanet, and Ying)
• tccs/opwd: Omnidirectional plane-wave destruction (Chen, Fomel, and Lu)
• tccs/specrecom: Automated spectral recomposition with application in stratigraphic interpretation (Cai, Fomel, and Zeng)
• Moved sep/aniso to cwp/aniso
• icp/sam2013gpushortestpath: Shortest path ray tracing on parallel GPU devices (Monsegny and Agudelo)
• tccs/nar: Seismic data decomposition into spectral components using regularized nonstationary autoregression (Fomel)
• tccs/dsrtomo: First-break traveltime tomography with the double-square-root eikonal equation (Li, Vladimirsky, and Fomel)
• cup/rna2d: Random noise attenuation using f-x regularized nonstationary autoregression (Liu, Chen, Du, and Wu)
• cup/rna3d: Noncausal f-x-y regularized nonstationary prediction filtering for random noise attenuation on 3D seismic data (Liu and Chen)
• tccs/psp: A parallel sweeping preconditioner for heterogeneous 3D Helmholtz equations (Poulson, Engquist, Li, and Ying)
• tccs/uncert: Structural uncertainty of time-migrated seismic images (Fomel and Landa)
• osu/shalek: modeling examples from Kyle Shalek and Jeff Daniels
• tccs/phase: Local skewness attribute as a seismic phase detector (Fomel and van der Baan)
• tccs/optapert: Selecting an optimal aperture in Kirchhoff migration using dip-angle images (Klokov and Fomel)
• Replaced most of Mathematica figures by Sage figures to improve reproducibility
• tongji/qpwave: Simulating propagation of separated wave modes in general anisotropic media, Part I: qP-wave propagators (Cheng and Kang)
• xtju/gpurtm: RTM using effective boundary saving: A staggered grid GPU implementation (Yang, Gao, and Wang)
• tccs/emdpf: Random noise attenuation by f-x empirical mode decomposition predictive filtering (Chen and Ma)
• Changes trip/iwave to trip/struct: IWAVE structure and basic use cases (Symes)

To SCons:

• Experimental IPython notebook in book/rsf/rsf/test/test.ipynb
• MKL check in configure only relevant for icc
• Upgraded to scons-2.3.1

To documentation:

• Added CITATION.txt file for the Madagascar paper in JORS.

To APIs:

• Updated numpy API for compatibility with the latest version of numpy
• Cast to float when writing data in Python API

To the Python package:

• fftw (if present) is included in core libraries during compilation
• Cygwin no longer provides libtirpc, removed it from configure
• Added support to tikz figures in reproducible documents
• Replaced -nojvm with -nodesktop for Matlab-generated figures
• Added workdir= paremeter to Flow

To programs:

• Added shift= parameter to sfkolmog
• Added eps= parameter to sflsfit
• user/fbroggin: New contributor (Filippo Broggini)
• sfpef renamed sfhpef
• sfpef (Wiener predictive error filtering) borrowed from SU's supef
• Added color=x cubehelix color scheme in sfgrey and sfgrey3
• Added inv= option to sfintbin
• Added pclip= option to sfscale
• user/jmonsegny: New contributor (Jorge Monsegny)
• user/pyang: New contributor (Pengliang Yang)
• creating rsfgee library in user/gee to avoid code duplication
• added sfput-like behavior in sfwindow and sfpad
• user/zhiguang: New contributor (Zhiguang Xue)
• user/hwang: New contributor (Hui Wang)
• user/ditthara: New contributor (Detchai Ittharat)

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

• Fixed reproducibility issues in tccs/diffr/gom

In documentation:

In APIs:

• Look for mex in matlab's directory to avoid confusion with other programs named mex
• Fixed parallel.c for the case of less jobs than nodes
• Added missing fflush in sf_simtab_input
• Avoid taking log(0) in vp_optimal_scale
• Fixed memory leak in gettmpdatapath in file.c
• Fixed small memory leaks in getpar.c

In the Python package:

In programs:

• sfbyte: "clip" determination when the first plane is zero
• Fixed size definitions in sfinttest1
• Fixed off-by-one bug in sfrickerfit
• Avoid cropping of images by vplot2eps
• Read the whole cube for finding contours in sfcontour3
• Fixed shift by one in sfdespike
• Fixed interact= bug in xtpen
• Fixed the case of negative o1 in sfsegyheader

In the build system:

• Set -fopenmp for linking with gcc
• Fixed directory locations in pens/fonts
• Fixed typo in the configure script
• Fixed the case of RSFSRC set to a different directory
• Fixed oglpen compilation on Cygwin

Release 1.5 (2013-07-24)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

• jsg/fpwd: Accelerated plane-wave destruction (Chen, Fomel, and Lu)
• swag/tau: Wavefield extrapolation in pseudodepth domain (Ma and Alkhalifah)
• jsg/lfd: Lowrank finite-differences and lowrank Fourier finite-differences for seismic wave extrapolation in the acoustic approximation (Song, Fomel, and Ying)
• sep/waverays: Wavefront construction using waverays (Urdaneta)
• swag/itime: Automatic traveltime picking using the instantaneous traveltime (Saragiotis, Alkhalifah, and Fomel)
• trip/test: Extended modeling in Madagascar (Liu and Symes)
• uwa/geo2013ElasticModellingGPU: Solving 3D anisotropic elastic wave equations on parallel GPU devices (Weiss and Shragge)
• jsg/eikods: Kirchhoff migration using eikonal-based computation of traveltime source-derivatives (Li and Fomel)
• jsg/orthorhombic: Modeling of pseudo-acoustic P-waves in orthorhombic media with a lowrank approximation (Song and Alkhalifah)

To SCons:

• Upgraded to scons-2.3.0

To documentation:

• Selfdocs include links for programs of the month

To APIs:

• Added m8r function for running Madagscar programs from MATLAB
• If C++ compiler works, C++ interface is installed by default
• added support for FFTW in cosft

To the Python package:

• Added an ability to have list arguments in configure
• Added MKL support in configure
• Added selfdocs for placeholders in bldutil
• Extended parallel split for sfomp and sfmpi
• Disabled SSE check in configure

To programs:

• Added scalebar= option for sfgraph with depth=
• Added an ability to specify options for sfpen with SFPENOPTS
• Added opt= parameter in sfspectra
• sfpad2nextfastsize: wrapper for kiss_fft_next_fast_size so it can be called from scripts and SConstruct files. Python wrapper for it: rsf.user.sf.pad2nextfastsize()
• Added forcebw= and force_raster options for pspen
• Added snap= option for sffftwave2
• Added frame numbers for movies made with sfgraph
• Included lbfgs in user/sparse
• user/fangg: new contributor (Gang Fang)
• Added an ability to specify a colortable in a CSV file
• user/luke: new contributor (Luke Decker)
• Moved some programs from user/fomels to user/pwd
• sfzoom: example Tkinter script for interactive zooming
• sfsegyheader can take tfile= parameter for input trace headers
• Extended join= option in sfomp and sfmpi to support adding (join=0)
• user/seisinv: new contributor (Yujin Liu)
• RVL package from Bill Symes and The Rice Inversion Project
• iwave++ package from Bill Symes and The Rice Inversion Project
• Moved iwave, rvl, and iwav++ to trip
• sfheadermath works with integer input
• user/zedong: new contributor (Zedong Wu)
• add Misolr25.cc which is double precision version using lowrank
• sfsegyheader: round-up for "delrt" and "dt" was fixed (aklokov)

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

In documentation:

• Fixed nb= parameter in sfawefd2d and sfawefd3d

In APIs:

• Fixed from_either bug in F90 API

In the Python package:

In programs:

• Fixed bug with handling zero values in sfclip
• Fixed incorrect data size bug in sffindmo
• Fixed true colors in gdpen
• Fixed parallel split in sfomp and sfmpi
• Set o1= in sfsegyread
• Fixed memsize= checking in sftransp
• Fixed large-size limitation in sfpwspray2

In the build system:

• Replaced WhereIs('python') with sys.executable
• Check for OpenMP even at a single-CPU system
• Use integer*8 in f77 examples
• Fixed suitesparse configuration
• Fixed missing _vp.h dependence in pens/main

Release 1.4 (2012-04-22)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

• jsg/lowrank: Seismic wave extrapolation using lowrank symbol approximation (Fomel, Ying, and Song)
• jsg/crs: Non-hyperbolic common reflection surface (Fomel and Kazinnik)
• trip/iwave: Using IWAVE (Symes)
• Viking Graben data moved to the public data server
• sep/fat: Imaging complex structures with first-arrival traveltimes (Bevc)
• sep/helft: Multi-dimensional Fourier transforms in the helical coordinate system (Rickett and Guitton)

To SCons:

• Support for XQuartz on Macs - looking in /opt/X11 directories
• np= parameter in Flow() for mpi programs
• sfdocs generated for all "pens" in pens/main
• pre-compilation of modules in book/Recipes
• upgraded to scons-2.2.0

To documentation:

• Self-doc is complete now for sfawefd2d and 3d

To APIs:

• python API (m8r or rsf.api) is now always installed
• tell and seek added to C++ API
• added support for FFTW and PSP
• shape() and reshape() methods in File class (python API) reversed for consistency with numpy

To the Python package:

• added support for gnuplot figures in rsf.tex
• added support for sage figures in rsf.tex

To programs:

• sfsemblance: semblance over the specified axis
• sflinear: linear 1-D interpolation
• sfspike now optionally accepts stdin
• iwave package from Bill Symes and The Rice Inversion Project
• user/zone: new contributor (Yanadet Sripanich)
• sfsegyheader creates delrt from o1
• user/poulsonj: new contributor (Jack Poulson)
• vpconvert checks the existence of different pens and prefers gdpen to pngpen
• sffft1, sffft3, sfspectra, sfspectra2: optional support for FFTW
• oglpen stops movie on pressing 'n' or 'm', menu on left button on Macs
• creating rsfpwd library in user/fomels to avoid code duplication
• sfawefd2d and 3d: constant-density flag. Improved speed, memory
• sfgraph: depth= option for colored symbols
• sfcat and sfadd no longer have a limit on the number of files
• user/chengjb: new contributor (Jiubing Cheng)
• retired su2rsf and segy2rsf to avoid code duplication with suread and segyread
• user/jsun: new contributor (Junzhe Sun)

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

In documentation:

In APIs:

• Fixed settype bug in Python API
• Fixed inpout selfdoc extraction for C++ programs

In the Python package:

• Fixed "scons test" in suproj

In programs:

• Fixed size limitation in sfclip2
• Added x0 and y0 in sfstolt
• Fixed installing the plplot driver with .driver_info extension

In the build system:

• Fixed failed dependency on gendoc.h when installing pens

Changes in defaults and interfaces

• In sflwefd: *q1 and *q2 parameters become *qx and *qz, respectively

Release 1.3 (2012-04-22)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

• jsg/reversible: A reversible transform for seismic data processing (Burnett and Ferguson)
• sep/pyramid: The pyramid transform and its application to signal/noise separation (Sun and Ronen)
• jsg/ffd: Fourier finite-difference wave propagation (Song and Fomel)
• jsg/apefint: Seismic data interpolation beyond aliasing using regularized nonstationary autoregression (Liu and Fomel)
• jsg/timefreq: Time-frequency analysis of seismic data using local attributes (Liu, Fomel, and Chen)
• data/alaska: Open Data/Open Source: Seismic Unix scripts to process a 2D land line (Schleicher)
• jsg/ltft: Seismic data analysis using local time-frequency decomposition (Liu and Fomel)

To SCons:

• Upgraded to scons-2.1.0

To documentation:

• Python API documented with Epydoc
• Limited the number of USED IN examples displayed by selfdoc and man pages (25 by default, controled by -u parameter in sfdoc)
• book/tutorial: A brief introduction to Madagascar (Jeff Godwin)
• Added selfdoc for sfomp and sfmpi

To APIs:

• librsfsegy / rsfsegy.h as a separate library

To the Python package:

• an option for the user to overwrite the installed config.py with ./rsfcfg.py or ~/.rsfcfg.py

To programs:

• sfgrey4: generate movie of 3-D cube plots.
• sfungrad: phase unwrapping by least squares.
• sfhistogram now takes integer input as well
• sfhist2: 2-D float with integer or float inputs
• in-core large-file (>2Gb) support in sfwindow and sftransp
• sfsparsify: put nonzero elements of 2-D array into sparse form
• sfmoveout: put spikes at an arbitrary moveout.
• sfcconv: 1-D convolution with complex numbers.
• sfpyramid: pyramid transform.
• sfshapeagc: automatic gain control by shaping regularization.
• modified sfsuwrite for consistency with sfsuread
• user/chen: new contributor (Zhonghuan Chen)
• sffoldplot: build a seismic fold map
• tkvpconvert: GUI for vpconvert
• user/rweiss: new contributor (Robin Weiss)
• sfewefd2d_gpu: 2d FDTD wave equation with GPU
• sfewefd3d_gpu: 3d FDTD wave equation with GPU
• user/aklokov: new contributor (Alexander Klokov)
• user/ediazp: new contibutor (Esteban Diaz)

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

In documentation:

• Included previously undocumented parameters (dash,plotcol,plotfat) in stdplot.
• Fixed selfdoc for Python scripts

In APIs:

In the Python package:

• Hires Bounding Box detection in Mathematica plots
• Location of config.py in configure.py
• Prevent segfault when the input file is closed prematurely.

In programs:

• Fixed sfpen (via dovplot) bug
• Fixed sflosignoi bug
• Fixed sfdots axis-positioning bug
• Fixed sfmath crash when datapath was specified
• Fixed handling of infinite values in sfgraph
• Fixed handling of different output size in sfiwarp
• Fixed sftransp off-core I/O bug

In the build system:

• Fixed bug that resulted in BLAS/ATLAS-based programs to not install in Fedora
• Eliminated hardcoded paths that made it impossible to package m8r
• Workaround for SCons bug #1488
• Fixed MacPorts and Fink path detection for compilers other than gcc on Mac
• Fixed bug preventing spaces in ./configure arguments
• Fixed cfortran.h dependency in api/f77

Release 1.2 (2011-07-14)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

• swag/anisogath: Angle gathers in wave-equation imaging for transversely isotropic media (Alkhalifah and Fomel)
• jsg/agath: Theory of 3-D angle gathers in wave-equation seismic imaging (Fomel)
• cwp/pept2011MicroearthquakeMonitoring: Micro-earthquake monitoring with sparsely-sampled data (Sava)
• jsg/vc3: Azimuthally anisotropic 3D velocity continuation (Burnett and Fomel)
• milano/taupvel: Velocity-independent tau-p moveout in a horizontally-layered VTI medium (Casasanta and Fomel)
• swag/thetaScan: Traveltime approximations for transversely isotropic media with an inhomogeneous background (Alkhalifah)
• cwp/geo2011WideAzimuthAngleDecomposition: Wide-azimuth angle gathers for wave-equation migration (Sava and Vlad)

To SCons:

• New directory structure: documentation under $RSFROOT/share/doc/madagascar, other supplemental files under $RSFROOT/share/madagascar

To documentation:

• Info from VERSION.txt being printed in man pages for all programs
• Informative message at the end of successful global builds

To APIs:

• Fetch, Movie, and other enhancements in Python API
• Input class (can read int and float pars from stdin) in Python backup API
• Added reading complex-valued data to rsf_read in Matlab API

To the Python package:

• More intuitive interface for rsf.user.ivlad.run()
• Expanded options for rsf.user.ivlad.exe()

To programs:

• sfkdmig2d: 2-D Prestack Kirchhoff depth migration (borrowed from SU)
• wanttitle= option in thplot
• color=w periodic color table in grey and grey3
• sfin accepts data from standard input
• sfmath accepts sign() function
• all= option in sfget
• sfbar: separate program for creating scalebar data
• sflorenz (generate Lorenz attractor)
• sfcat/sfmerge accept order= parameter
• user/xuxin

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

In documentation:

• Fixed missing parameter documentation in stdplot

In APIs:

• Fixed rsf_write to write complex-valued data
• Enabled building of dynamic libraries

In the Python package:

In programs:

• Fixed parameter-setting bug in sfstoltstretch
• Fixed float-to-int truncation bug in sfdd triggered by Intel C Compiler 10
• Fixed large-file-support bug in sfshot2cmp
• Fixed plane#= bug is sfeikonal
• Fixed error message bug in sfsegyheader

In the build system:

• Madagascar now compiling with CC=icc LINKFLAGS=-static-intel

Release 1.1 (2011-01-18)

Additions and enhancements

To the reproducible documents collection:

• rsf/bash: Vladimir Bashkardin's presentation at Houston-2010
• rsf/programming: Jeff Godwin's presentation at Houston-2010
• rsf/usp: Yang Liu's presentation at Houston-2010
• \published{} macro added to all published papers
• sep/fractal: Modeling 3-D anisotropic fractal media (Chemingui)
• sep/banana: Traveltime sensitivity kernels: Banana-doughnuts or just plain bananas? (Rickett)
• swag/eikds: An eikonal based formulation for traveltime perturbation with respect to the source location (Alkhalifah and Fomel)
• cwp/geo2008IsotropicAngleDomainElasticRTM: Isotropic angle-domain elastic reverse-time migration (Yan and Sava)
• jsg/stackadcig: Stacking angle-domain common-image gathers for normalization of illumination (Liu et al.)
• cwp/geo2009VTIModeSeparation: Elastic wave-mode separation for VTI media (Yan and Sava)
• cwp/geo2009TTIModeSeparation: Elastic wave-mode separation for TTI media (Yan and Sava)
• jsg/flat: Predictive painting of 3-D seismic volumes (Fomel)
• jsg/oc3: OC-seislet: seislet transform construction with differential offset continuation (Liu and Fomel)
• sep/lines: Random lines in a plane (Claerbout)
• hansung/cgg: Conjugate guided gradient (CGG) method for robust inversion and its application to velocity-stack inversion (Ji)
• sep/texture: Texture synthesis and prediction error filtering (Brown)
• Grave directory for papers that are no longer reproducible

To SCons:

• Upgraded to scons-2.0.1

To documentation:

• Update to vplot man pages
• This file (NEWS.txt)

To APIs:

• New, improved Java API: Cleaner, independent from Mines JTK. Not compatible with the old API

To the Python package:

• rsf.user.ivlad: chk_file_r, getppout, get1st functions
• rsf.user.m8rex: WrongPath exception class
• rsf.user.sf: attr function
• rsf.version: info about the software version

To programs:

• tkMadagascar (sfgui and sfbrowser)
• sflmo (frequency-domain LMO)
• sfcp - added functionality to act as a filter
• sftaupmo - added functionality for effective/interval velocities
• sfktmig (prestack time migration
• sfrotate - added functionality for negative rotations
• sfmedian (median on the first axis)
• sfregr (linear regression)
• sfsvd (SVD using scipy)
• sfthreedcube (3D display using mayavi2)
• sfiphase -added complex option
• sfsensitivity (traveltime sensitivity kernels)
• sfcltft (complex local time-frequency transform)
• sfclpf (complex local prediction filter)
• sfiwarp2 (inverse 2-D warping)
• many new programs in user/lcasasan
• user/jun

Bug fixes

In the reproducible documents collection:

• Cross-platform (Linux/Mac) solution in book/jsg/flat/*/SConstruct
• Fixed program links in book/bei/fdm and book/bei/ft1
• Fixed program links in book/gee/ajt and book/gee/hlx
• High-resolution figures in book/gee/hlx

In documentation:

• Update of html/txt/spec documentation and man pages triggered by changes in programs or examples through dependence on use.py
• Show y and n for boolean parameters in F90 programs, instead of .true./.false.
• Show y and n for boolean params in some Python programs instead of True/False (fix for some cases in which existing mechanism did not work)

In APIs:

• Appropriate flags for compilation on OpenSolaris
• Fixed memory leak in getpar.c
• Fixed memory leak in llist.c
• Improved accuracy of triangle smoothing
• Updated numpy interface in m8r.i

In the Python package:

• In rsf.user.ivlad (function ndims)
• In rsf.user.ooio (init of class RSFheader)
• CUDA configuration moved to configure.py

In programs:

• sfbandpass
• sfzcp
• sfstretch - proper handling of half-offset
• sfslant and sfvelcon - proper antialiasing

Release 1.0 (2010-07-23)

No release notes for 1.0 or before

About this document

This document is found both as a wiki page at http://www.ahay.org/wiki/Release_Notes , and under source version control at https://github.com/ahay/src/blob/master/NEWS.txt . The repository version is the definitive one. Before a release, the content of the latest section of the wiki page and that of the corresponding part of NEWS.txt should be reconciled.