ARTIST v1.0.0

🚀 First release 🔥

This is the initial release of ARTIST providing:

• A fully differentiable digital twin for solar tower power plants.
• Support for surface reconstruction, kinematic reconstruction, differentiable ray tracing, aim point optimization, and more.
• Fully GPU-Optimized.
• Designed for parallel compute.
• Examples and tutorials to help you get started.

Below are some of the major changes!

What's Changed

• Features/concentrator by @MarleneBusch in #14
• Features/sun rotation by @MarleneBusch in #35
• Linear Actuator by @kalebphipps in #52
• Heliostat Raytracing with MPI by @kalebphipps in #57
• Features/differentiable nurbs by @MarleneBusch in #62
• Create NOTICE by @Markus-Goetz in #75
• Maintenance/fair software by @mcw92 in #83
• Features/gpu support by @MarleneBusch in #94
• Features/alignment optimization by @MarleneBusch in #96
• Features/multi heliostats by @MarleneBusch in #113
• Features/multiple parallel heliostats by @MarleneBusch in #124
• Features/flexible heliostat activation by @MarleneBusch in #131
• Features/parallelized heliostat groups by @MarleneBusch in #139
• Features/hyperparameter search including motor position optimization by @MarleneBusch in #154

New Contributors

• @MarleneBusch made their first contribution in #14
• @kalebphipps made their first contribution in #18
• @mcw92 made their first contribution in #18
• @Markus-Goetz made their first contribution in #75
• @pre-commit-ci[bot] made their first contribution in #86
• @Filos1992 made their first contribution in #150

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ARTIST-Association/ARTIST/commits/v1.0.0