2.10.1: exact solution can appear in legend; can also plot under data; fits reader and denoise utility can read/write spectral cubes; text shapes can print header variables using %(var); can shift cross section by precise amounts in interactive mode using number followed by u/d; fits reader includes header quantities; reduced verbosity for non-interactive plots; use of fake dust particles is now via menu option, not environment variable; max particle types = 24; userguide in readthedocs format; bug fix with save limits with particle tracking; support for .pfm pixelmap format as output; physical units are ON by default; prompts only for particle types present in data 2.10.0: much improved splash to grid - bug fixes with pixel number and roundoff error; use Petkova (2018) method for sub-pixel rendering to 3D grid and 3D projections; added bytestream output formats for splash to grid and splash to ascii; can press number and -/+ to zoom out/in by that factor in interactive mode; use SPLASH_COROTATE=1,3 to corotate with arbitrary pair of sink particles; SPLASH_COROTATE also gives velocity field in corotating frame; splash to ascii can write particular columns by setting SPLASH_CONVERT=1,4; plasma beta correct in both code and physical units; working fits reader and splash-denoise utility 2.9.1: cleaner menu options for units and calculated quantities; surface rendering allowed with 3D perspective turned off; automatic labelling of grain sizes in density and column density plots; adaptive limits on log colour bars show 3 dex range by default; auto-adjust limits to device aspect ratio works with multiple panels; bug fixes with r-z rendering; Toomre Q prompts for mass 2.9.0: general header quantities are read and available in function parser; more robust label detection and parsing during ascii data read; splash to grid works in non-cartesian geometries; added flared and log-flared coordinate systems; Doppler shift colour bar; can customise line style and colour when plotting multiple exact solutions; seg faults fixed; better plot tiling decisions; disappearing arrows bug fix; Rafikov disc-planet exact solution added; atan2 implemented in function parser; various multigrain phantom read fixes (incl. seg faults); exact rendering implemented in 2D; libsplash implemented for use as Python splash backend 2.8.0: 360/4pi video mode added; automatically read labels from ascii file headers; nearest sensible unit (e.g. au or pc) used by default; cactus hdf5 data read; kernel-smoothed particle plots of arbitrary quantities; Viridis, Ocean and Inferno colour schemes; can customise line colours; Bondi flow exact solution; option for ticks but no labels; correct units in surface density plots; colour bar on top or left; support for multi-grain dust in Phantom; bug fix with NaNs in ascii files 2.7.0: Hollywood mode added (ctrl-m in interactive mode); better handling of dust/gas phantom data; added rotated cartesian geometry; rendering implemented in r-phi coordinates; added Fortran 2008 intrinsics to function parser; better rectangle plotting; better falcON data read; Ogilvie-Lubow exact solution for planet-disc interaction; tipsy read now works when splash compiled in double precision; splash to gridascii2 implemented; bugs with r-phi rendering fixed 2.6.0: SILO, falcON and .pbob data reads implemented; bug fixes in gadget-hdf5 reader; can recognise particle types in ascii read; more robust sphNG read; dust fraction recognised in Phantom data read; Toomre Q works in physical units; bug fix with disappearing units labels; bug fix in shock tube solution; added splash calc delta; splash to ascii keeps precision; better power spectra 2.5.1: error bar style options; support for 5K displays; can plot vectors and render with colours if h not read; range restrictions apply during splash to grid; improved line-style legend; now up to 6 line styles; fixes to amuse-hdf5 read; phantom read handles star/dm particles; various bugs fixed 2.5.0: instant multiplots by giving multiple columns as y axis; ability to plot multiple exact solution files on same plot; compiles in parallel by default; support for tagged sphNG/Phantom format; AMUSE hdf5 format reader added; various bug fixes 2.4.1: Roche-lobe plotting vastly improved; newunit= issue fixed; bug fix with reading sink velocities from Phantom; other minor bug fixes 2.4.0: time formatting in legend can include general functions; option to include sinks in opacity rendering; supports one-fluid dust visualisation; C-shock exact solution; better polytrope solution 2.3.1: SPLASH\_COROTATE option to plot in frame corotating with sinks; bug fixes with handling of dead/accreted/boundary particles in sphNG/phantom; various other bugs fixed 2.3.0: can customise time formatting in legend; improvements to legends; less verboseness; splash can read and plot pixel maps produced with -o ascii; 3D vector field plotting improved; bug fix with gfortran 4.8 2.2.2: particle tracking by type implemented; can interpolate specific columns in splash to grid; SPLASH\_CENTRE\_ON\_SINK option generic to all data reads; Aly Reheam format added; option for 2nd y axis on plots; bug fix with X11 linking on Ubuntu; can read gadget ICs files 2.2.1: minor bug with axes plotting fixed; Wendland kernels added; bugs with exact solution plotting fixed; bug fix with tracking of dark matter particles 2.2.0: option to use different kernels for interpolation; floating/inset colour bars added; splash to gadget conversion implemented; splash to grid works in 2D; improved interfaces to shapes and animation sequences; automatically turns on dark matter particle plotting if no gas; interactive mode help displayed automatically 2.1.1: irregular/circular particle selection using shift-left click/middle click; improved h5part and GADGET HDF5 data reads; splash can be compiled in double precision; bug fixes with calculated quantities + change of coordinate systems; improved vector plot legend; option for box+numbers but no labels added 2.1.0: 3D vector field visualisation added; GADGET HDF5 read implemented; page sizes can be specified in pixels; limits can auto-adapt to device aspect ratio; more general exact solution from file option; tiling works with one colour bar per row; splash calc handles different particle types 1.15.0: Multiplot with different particle types implemented; calculated quantities list is now pre-filled automatically; preliminary support for r-phi and r-z rendering; outlined solid markers implemented; better handling of multiple types; manual contour levels can be specified in splash.contours; parallel splash to grid; better support for non-square pixels; clipping of numbers at edge of viewport fixed 1.14.1: SEREN data read added; dragon read updated; build follows Gnu conventions on DEST and DESTDIR (for macports build); can have up to 12 particle types; exact solutions re-ordered; dusty wave exact solution added 1.14.0: Can flip between rendered quantities in interactive mode using f,F; SPLASH\_DEFAULTS variable can be set for system-wide defaults; can plot arbitrary functions of x,t as exact solution; added data read for H5PART format; GADGET read across multiple files implemented; error bars can be plotted for x and y axis simultaneously; default rotation angles set if 3D perspective turned on; new directory layout and more helpful error messages during build; PGPLOT linking is easier to get right 1.13.1: bugs with new calc quantities module fixed; generic library interface implemented so backend can be changed easily; bug fix with auto pixel selection; simpler foreground/background colour setting; added subgrid interpolation warning 1.13.0: function parser incorporated; calculated quantities can now be specified at runtime; arbitrary function plotting implemented as an exact solution; command-line SPH->grid conversion ("splash to grid") implemented; ctrl-t in interactive mode adds arbitrary text box; better line style/colour changing; bug fix with tiling and y-axis labels; various other bug fixes 1.12.2: Variable marker sizes added, can plot particles as circles with size proportional to h; dark matter rendering with block-labelled GADGET format fixed; VINE read handles star particles; TIPSY read with ifort10.0.0 works; snsph read added; splash to phantom added; does not override labels for coords, vectors by default; bug fixes with contouring options; stability bug fixes with older compilers; more robust memory handling; bug fix with automatic pixel selection causing seg fault 1.12.1: Can edit/delete text shapes interactively, also the colour bar label; can customise the label on projection plots; contour levels better defined; SPLASH\_HMIN\_CODEUNITS added; option for numeric labelling of contours; contour limits can be set separately to render limits for same quantity; minor bug fixes 1.12.0: command-line plotting implemented; ln transform added; bug fixes in GADGET read; backspace over annotation (legends,titles,axes,colour bar) in interactive mode removes it; "splash calc" command line utility calculates time sequences of global quantities from a sequence of dump files; bug fix causing seg fault 1.11.1: automatic number of pixels and exact pixel boundaries implemented; mass does not have to be read from dump file; frame changes are per-page not per-dump file for animation sequences; lower stacksize footprint; bug fix with circles of interaction; bug fixes with block-labelled GADGET read; Steve Foulkes data read added 1.11.0: ability to use subset of particles in restricted parameter range(s); probability density function plot option; plot-hugging colour bars added; ability to annotate plot with a range of shapes; v, V, w and H implemented in interactive mode for >1 panel; various bug fixes 1.10.2: disc surface density / toomre q parameter plotting added; flash colour schemes added; splash to binary convert option; can change order in which particle types are plotted; splash.columns file overrides default column label settings; vanaverbeke format read; various bug fixes 1.10.1: "splash to" command line option converts binary dumps to ascii format; vector plots + rotation now implemented; block labelled GADGET format read; ring-spreading exact solution added; other minor changes 1.10.0: horizontal colour bars implemented; -p, -o command line options; can have mixed types in data reads; TIPSY and DRAGON data reads; density weighted rendering; normalisation option applies to column density plots; improved particle tracking; save as option; various bug fixes 1.9.2: improvements to ascii read including asplash -e option; smarter foreground/background colour changing for titles; min=max problem fixed (caught by splash not pgplot); fixed vector arrow length option; other minor changes and bug fixes 1.9.1: environment variables + improvements to gadget data read; better prompting; 3 new colour schemes; improved legend/title options; other minor changes 1.9.0: animation sequences implemented; origin settings now affect radius calculation and are relative to tracked particle; automatic line width choice for postscript devices; w key adapts vector arrows; vastly improved userguide 1.8.1: option to hide vector arrows where there are no particles added; smoother 3D plotting at low pixel numbers; (smoother vector plots); bug fixes with a); issues with round-off error with z integration of vectors fixed 1.8.0: hidden particles not used in rendering; units for z integration addded; a) and g) implemented in interactive mo de for multiple-plots-per-page; improved cross section using x in interactive mode 1.7.2: Menu shortcuts implemented; bug fix/ more sensible transformation of angular vector components in different co-ordinate systems; improvements to interactive zoom and origin recentreing; improved colour-by-type option; restrictions on page size removed; minor bug fixes 1.7.1: command line options for defaults and limits files added; minor bug fixes 1.7.0: renamed SPLASH instead of SUPERSPHPLOT; much faster data read for gadget and sphNG reads (only required columns read); physical units can be saved to file; new menu formats; various other bug fixes 1.6.2: fast particle plotting and streamline plotting implemented; more bug fixes with interactive mode on multiplots; various other bug fixes 1.6.1: bug fixes to 1.6.0; further improvements to interactive mode on multiplots 1.6: interactive mode on multiple plots per page; highly optimised interpolation + parallel version; new Makefile; various bug fixes 1.5.4: Handles multiple SPH/non-SPH particle types; axes redrawn after plotting; minor bug fixes 1.5.3: minor bug fixes/improvements to multiple plots per page, colour bar labelling, tiled plots and legend. Accelerated rendering option for projections 1.5.2: S) option for saving limits and defaults; MUCH faster interactive replotting (no unnecessary re-rendering); a few other minor things 1.5.1: docs updated for v1.5, other minor changes 1.5: 3D perspective added, 3D opacity rendering, improved rotation, colour schemes, adjustable vector arrows (+legend), improved timestepping behaviour, speed enhancements, physical unit rescaling 1.0.5: error calculation for exact solutions; legend for plot markers; exact(densityprofiles) added; more colour schemes; unit rescaling improved; other minor changes and bug fixes 1.0.4: better colour schemes; interactive colour scheme changing; various minor changes and bug fixes 1.0.3: rescale data option; better page setup; improved zooming; interactive particle tracking + various minor changes and bug fixes 1.0.2: much improved ascii data read; better line plotting; zoom on powerspectrum plots; calculate quantities switch + various bug fixes 1.0.1: better colour bar behaviour on multiplots; various minor improvements 1.0 : first "official" release: version given to many people at IPAM meeting and put on web. 0.667 : This version was released to a limited number of people who had specifically requested a copy. 0.666 : This version was released to one or two people and had some bugs still buried.