Merge pull request #20 from DGtal-team/rel1.4

Blog post for the release 1.4

_posts/2024-06-10-dgtal-release1.4.md

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+title: DGtal release 1.4
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+We are happy to announce the [release  1.4 of DGtal](https://github.com/DGtal-team/DGtal/releases/tag/1.4) and its tools. As always,many new features, edits and bugfixes are listed in the [Changelog](https://github.com/DGtal-team/DGtal/blob/master/ChangeLog.md), and we would like to thank all devs involved in this release. In this short review, we would like to only focus on selected new features.
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+* **New Features**:
+  * [Implicit shapes](https://dgtal-team.github.io/doc-nightly/moduleWinding.html) can be constructed from point clouds using generalized winding numbers from [libIGL](https://libigl.github.io).
+  * `SurfaceMesh` instances can be updated through [flip operations](https://dgtal-team.github.io/doc-nightly/moduleSurfaceMesh.html#SurfMesh_sec8).
+  * [Lattice polytopes](https://dgtal-team.github.io/doc-nightly/moduleDigitalConvexity.html) describing segments or triangles can be constructed in a much more efficient manner.
+  * Update of the [Discrete Polygonal Calculus](https://dgtal-team.github.io/doc-nightly/modulePolygonalCalculus.html) module to construct a calculus on a corrected geometry (when the discrete tangent planes are given by  user-provided normal vectors).
+  * A brand new style for the [DGtal documentation](https://dgtal-team.github.io/doc-nightly/index.html).
+  * DGtal now requires C++17 compilers.
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+* **DGtalTools/DGtalTools-contrib**:
+  * New `volscope` tool in DGtalTools for quick visualization of VOL files.
+  * New tools to edit and color meshes in DGtaltools-contrib (`polyMeshEdit` and `polyMeshColorize`)
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+<td markdown="span">![](../img/volscope-surface.png) </td><td markdown="span">  ![](../img/volscope-volumetric.png) </td><td markdown="span">  ![](../img/meshedit.png) </td>
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+* **Project Management**. Many updates of the DGtal repository: new documentation style, new CI and deploy bots for the python binding (using Github Actions), easier build on Windows, many bug and warning fixes...
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+**Links:**
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+  * DGtal 1.4: [http://dgtal.org/download/](http://dgtal.org/download)
+  * Complete changelogs:
+      * [https://github.com/DGtal-team/DGtal/blob/master/ChangeLog.md](https://github.com/DGtal-team/DGtal/blob/master/ChangeLog.md)
+      * [https://github.com/DGtal-team/DGtalTools/blob/master/ChangeLog.md](https://github.com/DGtal-team/DGtalTools/blob/master/ChangeLog.md)
+      * [https://github.com/DGtal-team/DGtalTools-contrib/blob/master/ChangeLog.md](https://github.com/DGtal-team/DGtalTools-contrib/blob/master/ChangeLog.md)
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+  * DGtalTools 1.4 [http://dgtal.org/tools/](http://dgtal.org/tools/)
+  * DGtalTools-contrib 1.4: [http://dgtal.org/tools/](http://dgtal.org/tools/)
+  * DGtal Documentation: [http://dgtal.org/doc/stable](http://dgtal.org/doc/stable)
+  * DGtalTools documentation:  [http://dgtal.org/doc/tools/stable](http://dgtal.org/doc/tools/stable)
+  * DGtalTools-contrib: [https://github.com/DGtal-team/DGtalTools-contrib](https://github.com/DGtal-team/DGtalTools-contrib)
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documentation.md

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 ### Documentation
-* [User guide and stable API documentation][1] (1.3)
+* [User guide and stable API documentation][1] (1.4)
 * [Nightly build doxygen documentation][2]
 * [Nightly build doxygen documentation of DGtalTools][22]
 * [Documentation docset URL][3] (1.0, for [Dash][4] or [Zeal][5] tools)
 
-### Material for the DGtal tutorial at DGMM 2022
+### Materials for the DGtal tutorial at DGMM 2022
 
 
 During the second [IAPR International Conference on Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology 2022](https://dgmm2022.sciencesconf.org), we had a DGtal tutorial session with many exercises and demos. The material is now available:

download.md

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 ### Releases
 
-* Last stable DGtal release: [DGtal 1.3][2]
+* Last stable DGtal release: [DGtal 1.4][2]
 
 ### Development version