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SimSat v0.1.6 - faster GPU preview and improved top-down clouds

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@FahrenheitResearch FahrenheitResearch released this 12 Jul 01:14

Highlights

  • Adds a one-click GPU Render action in SimSat Studio. Rust, the CLI, and
    Python now expose the same explicit gpu-preview backend, and every temporary
    compatibility substitution is reported rather than silently ignored.
  • Adds real GPU cloud rendering for top-down views.
  • Top-down output now honors Model native, ABI 1 km, and ABI 2 km
    resolution while preserving the model domain's physical aspect ratio at the
    output-size cap. Model native means one pixel per source-grid cell.
  • Adds an opt-in, default-off top-down stratiform reconstruction control for
    source-grid ring artifacts in affected HRRR cloud fields. It is available in
    Studio, the CLI, Python, and Rust; geostationary and raw-band rendering remain
    unchanged.
  • Adds opt-in bounded delta-flux cloud-transport modes, including the
    brightness-neutral delta-flux-v2b experiment.
  • Windows executables now carry correct embedded FileVersion/ProductVersion
    metadata (0.1.6).

The v0.1.5 visible calibration remains in place: exposure 1.5, cloud optical
depth scale 0.15, brighter terrain presentation, and finite-domain cloud-edge
feathering.

Validation

  • Public Linux CI passed: fmt, strict clippy, and the full workspace test suite.
  • Release-artifact builds passed on Windows and Linux.
  • The published Windows executable is the exact locally tested static-CRT RC.
  • The manylinux wheel passed a clean WSL import/version smoke.
  • Both packaged Linux CLI binaries retained mode 0755 and passed --help.

Build records: CI and release artifacts.

SHA-256

57282CDFE177224FB6EB3D2CE30AAF02BEDD4C3925DE7809B060F8CAB92245F9  simsat-0.1.6-cp38-abi3-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl
4AACDD56FFEDB3D46B9818857F977421A0C72A7392C00EEEE264B935BD388E4B  simsat-cli-v0.1.6-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
56D9C18AD30BC0743C13F7E75A269036D457A7F631CD21094814A862003DBAB3  simsat-studio-v0.1.6-windows-x86_64.exe
66B16FC0C7353CB519114C2B2C338FF32CFD1B2CF41431ECA62EC5FDBB5319FF  THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt

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before running it.