Announcing Sionna 1.2

[faycalaa]

Sionna 1.2

Sionna RT

• Diffraction Support: Adds support for diffraction in both path computation and radio maps. Flags are available to enable or disable edge diffraction and diffraction in the lit region. A good starting point to experiment with this new feature is the tutorial on diffraction.

• Enhanced Path Solver: The path solver has been improved to find more paths while simultaneously being more memory efficient.

• Scene Previewer Updates:

  • Added a feature to obtain the coordinates of a point by clicking on the preview widget.
  • Introduced a slider to select the clipping offset when clipping is enabled.

• Upgraded Dependencies: Sionna RT now uses Mitsuba 3.7 and Dr.Jit 1.1, benefiting from various optimizations that result in faster and more memory-efficient ray tracing.

• Colormap Customization: Adds a feature to set the colormap used for visualizing radio maps, both in preview and rendering.

• Python Support: Support for Python 3.8 and 3.9 has been discontinued.

[mlouielu]

It it nice to see the update, but it will be better if we can split out the coding style fix & the actual feature updates in the squashed commit.