v2.2.1

What's Changed

This patch includes documentation, bugfixes, and dependency updates. A flatter p5.strands API is also included as part of ongoing incremental strands API.

You can get started with the features in this release using these sketches:

• p5 2.2.1 starter/demo with p5.strands buildFilterShader - demonstrates a filter shader using p5.strands
• p5 2.2.1 starter with WEBGPU - the WebGPU mode is new in 2.2, and released experimentally for community testing

The focus of this patch is performance improvements to WebGPU core add-on. You can load both p5.js and WebGPU mode by adding these two script tags to your sketch:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/p5@2.2.1/lib/p5.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/p5@2.2.1/lib/p5.webgpu.js"></script>

Then load WebGPU mode in createCanvas:

async function setup() {
  await createCanvas(400, 400, WEBGPU);
}

Read more about how it works and where we plan on taking it here!

What's Changed 🎊

• Fix rotation transformations outside of push/pop applying to main canvas in WebGPU by @davepagurek in #8423
• Make sure getTexture works in vertex shaders by @davepagurek in #8424
• Performance improvements for colors by @davepagurek in #8355
• fix textToModel regression for space characters by @skyash-dev in #8429
• add unit tests for HSB color space by @Piyushrathoree in #8376
• Experiment: flatter strands API by @davepagurek in #8314
• Auto return shader hooks by @vietnguyen2358 in #8384
• Fix noiseDetail() in p5.js 2.x so that the falloff parameter defaults to 0.5 when omitted. by @shuklaaryan367-byte in #8417
• Normalize strands noise output range to match JS noise() by @rakesh2OO5 in #8430
• fix createColorPicker ignores initial colour arg on chrome by @Piyushrathoree in #8363
• Add WebGL visual regression tests for transform functions by @aashu2006 in #8465
• Fix gifs in WebGL mode by @davepagurek in #8472
• feat(webgl): add global property support for p5.strands by @avinxshKD in #8211
• Webgpu perf updates by @davepagurek in #8480
• docs(p5.strands): document smoothstep by @jjnawaaz in #8459
• gitignore vscode local.code-workspace allowing users project-specific overrides by @nbogie in #8479
• fix(webgl): normalize nearly identical vertices before tessellation by @avinxshKD in #8221
• Remove deprecated, unmaintained vscode extension "npm" from recommendations by @nbogie in #8497
• Use --shallow in doc build to prevent documentation.js from processing GLSL imports by @nbogie in #8500
• Dependencies updates by @limzykenneth in #8360
• Add visual regression tests for WebGL 3D primitives by @aashu2006 in #8485
• Add transform support to bezier shapes in clip() by @VANSH3104 in #8481
• Fix instance mode usage of uniformFloat() in shader.modify() example by @aashu2006 in #8470
• More performance updates for WebGPU mode by @davepagurek in #8502
• More WebGPU optimizations by @davepagurek in #8510
• fix: use @chainable per-overload by @LuLaValva in #8504
• add getTexture docs and examples for p5.strands by @nbogie in #8446

New Contributors

• @vietnguyen2358 made their first contribution in #8384
• @shuklaaryan367-byte made their first contribution in #8417
• @rakesh2OO5 made their first contribution in #8430
• @aashu2006 made their first contribution in #8465
• @jjnawaaz made their first contribution in #8459
• @LuLaValva made their first contribution in #8504

Stewards

This patch was stewarded (through code review, comments, and discussion) by
@davepagurek
@limzykenneth
@nbogie
@perminder-17
@ksen0

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.2.1