OCTA-BBS

We release the new version of OCTA.

The updates from the previous version are as follows:
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1. ENGINES

* COGNAC 11.2.4
* SUSHI Ver.12.7 Revision 240620
* KAPSEL-4.30 (compiled without FFTW)
* MUFFIN5 (Updated PyMuffin/PyMuffin_Elastica.py)

For more information, please refer to the engine release notes, or the forum for each engine in OCTA BBS.

2. GOURMET 4.5.0

* The new features added in OCTA 8.4 U2M (Kakutyo OCTA) are included in this version.
Refer to the OCTA 8.4 U2M manuals for details.
* Python has been updated to 3.10.
On Windows, we use Python3.10.11 installer and all the required packages have been installed by pip command.
On Linux, we compiled Python3.10.14 source files on RHEL8. All the required packages have been installed by pip command.
On Linux distributions other than Redhat, building of the Python and GOURMET module is required.
* The following new tools are included:
AITool
ImageLoader
FillingParticleTool
PatternMatchingStructureGenerator

For more details, see the manuales.

Linux installation manuals : Linux installer : Windows installer(exe module version and installation manuals) : Windows installer(zip file version and installation manuals) :
# Note #
If you have problems running modules such as COGNAC, SUSHI and GOURMET on Windows, please download and install the following package:
* Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 Redistributable Package (x64).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/w ... 9-and-2022
https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe

If build fails on Linux while compiling yut_object.c, please replace
GOURMET/src/udfio/src/yut_object.c and GOURMET/src/udfio/inc/yut_object.h
by the attached files.

# Build may fail if you are using relatively new versions of gcc,
# for example gcc-15.2 on Ubuntu 26.04.