Release 0.3.0 · dhermes/bezier

Performance Optimizations

Adding __slots__ for all classes
Removing all usage of @property calls from internal callers (to avoid function call overhead)
Avoiding un-necessary data copying, e.g. nodes[[0], :] creates a copy but
```
nodes[0, :].reshape((1, 2))
```
does not (more details)
Adding _verify switches to selectively disable overly defensive value checking. Added to CurvedPolygon constructor, Surface.evaluate_barycentric(), Surface.evaluate_cartesian(), Surface.evaluate_multi() and Surface.intersect(). Internal callers with already verified data now skip verification steps
Bailing out early if surface bounding boxes are disjoint in Surface.intersect()

Requiring degree in Curve and Surface constructors, but adding Curve.from_nodes() and Surface.from_nodes() factories to accept nodes only (computing the degree in the constructor every time is a waste of flops, especially if the caller knows the degree)
Removing public Curve.copy() and Surface.copy()
Removing custom equality checks for Curve and Surface objects. The previous implementation did not factor in all relevant values
Returning 1xD arrays instead of flattened D-dimensional 1D arrays from Curve.evaluate(), Surface.evaluate_barycentric(), Surface.evaluate_cartesian(), and related helpers
Renaming Intersection.left/right as first/second (They were poorly named originally, since "left" and "right" were in reference to where they were used in code, not geometry. This class is not part of the public interface, but it is documented.)

Handling cases where one corner of a surface touches another but their interiors don't intersect (in Surface.intersect()). Adding ignored_corner classification to handle these curve-curve intersecions that don't contribute to a surface-surface intersection
Throwing exception in Curve.locate() when the subdivided intervals are very far apart (#13)
Improving Surface.is_valid by considering the signs of the Jacobian determinant at corner nodes (#12)

Adding possible strategy to avoid linear convergence in newton_refine()
Adding AppVeyor configuration to make sure there are no Windows issues, testing exclusively with conda install
Updating generated images with matplotlib 2.0