Release v3.4.0 · elalish/manifold

This is a major release with many bug fixes, performance improvements, updates to the TypeScript API, and ManifoldCAD. Notable changes:

Added MinkowskiSum and MinkowskiDifference, but note that the current implementation performs many union operations. It may be slow and memory-intensive for complex meshes.
MeshIO is removed from our public API. Users should use libraries such as Trimesh for Python and assimp for C++. The MeshIO code is still available as an example for interfacing with assimp.
ManifoldCAD can now import and operate on glTF models! It can also display 2D CrossSections and non-manifold imports. The documentation is also vastly improved, for both ManifoldCAD scripts, and the underlying TS API for those wanting to build their own tool.

New Features

manifoldc minor API fixes, by @geoffder in #1455.
Deprecate Manifold.compose() in WASM bindings, by @tonious in #1487.
Deprecate compose, by @pca006132 in #1489.
Add C-binding functions to access the normalIdx parameter of GetMeshGL/GetMeshGL64, by @WNP78 in #1494.
Make MeshIO private, by @pca006132 in #1529.

Cleanup of Boolean3, by @elalish in #1443.
Fix determinism, by @pca006132 in #1452.
New symbolic perturbation, by @elalish in #1445.
Fix SplitPinchedVerts parallelization, by @pca006132 in #1456.
Boolean3 performance optimization, by @pca006132 in #1457.
Fix create halfedges, by @pca006132 in #1472.
Lazy collider, by @pca006132 in #1473.
Fix face normals, by @elalish in #1475.
Share halfedge, by @pca006132 in #1478.
Minor optimizations, by @pca006132 in #1480.
Avoid copies and add more tracing, by @pca006132 in #1481.
Fix excessive memory usage in batch union operations, by @zalo in #1495.
Fix negative offset circular segment calculation, by @pca006132 in #1511.
Fix degenerate hulls, by @pca006132 in #1512.
Make keyholing more robust in triangulator, by @elalish in #1528.
Fix lazy collider, by @Trzeth in #1540.
Fix Cylinder(h, 0, r) to support cone with apex at bottom, by @AnshulPatil2005 in #1541.

Removed gl-matrix and updated examples, by @elalish in #1429.
Ensure that Manifold timing message includes deferred operations, by @tonious in #1439.
Export internal type modules for TypeScript portability, by @Loosetooth in #1446.
Import glTF models into manifoldCAD, by @tonious in #1434, #1461, #1505, #1514.
Compatibility fixes, by @tonious in #1449, #1451, #1453, #1454.
TypeScript Documentation Overhaul, by @tonious in #1484, #1488, #1492, #1497.
Use worker bundled via esbuild, by @tonious in #1486.
Update NPM dependencies, by @tonious in #1436, #1499.
Fix Minkowski JS Bindings and TypeScript 5.9 compatibility in gltf-io.ts, by @zalo in #1501.
Update esbuild.mjs to work with emscripten v5, by @neilpa in #1508.
Make CrossSections visible, by @tonious in #1507.
Separate Editor and Examples for clarity, by @tonious in #1536, #1535, #1533.
Fix js bindings for manifold.simplify() with default parameters, by @dsafa in #1543.