This newsletter informs you about the latest progress of software related to growth grammars. In order to be informed about updates of the GroIMP software, please use the monitoring features of the GroIMP project at Sourceforge.

GroIMP 1.2 is available for download. The new features are:

• added GroPhysics (using JBullet as physics engine)
• added new layout algorithm for 2D view
• added point cloud as primitive
• added virtual laser scanner
• added implicit volumes to raytracer
• added supershape primitive

GroIMP 1.1 is now available for download. The new features are:

• added a new 3D view using GLSL (provides realtime procedural textures, shadows, transparency)
• new GroIMP icon
• improved ODE support

GroIMP 1.0 is now available for download. The new features are:

• added GPU-Raytracer Sunshine for PT, BPT, and spectral rendering (experimental)
• added support for ODEs
• added OpenAlea plugin
• improved X3D plugin (now uses XMLBeans to generate XML parser)
• added Object Inspector (hierarchical and flat)

The gallery was extended and contains now even more examples. There is also a submission form to provide own examples to the community.

There is also a Wiki available to provide tutorials and share ideas with others.

GroIMP 0.9.8.1 is now available for download.

The new gallery at grogra.de is now online. It provides a lot of examples and technical notes.

GroIMP 0.9.8 is now available for download. The new features are:

• X3D import and export for 3D objects
• Improved RGG toolbar
• Algorithm to avoid collisions
• Node folding in queries

GroIMP 0.9.7 is now available for download. The new features are:

• DXF/OBJ import for 3D objects
• parallel version of the radiation model which makes use of multiple processors
• new examples shapes, Ludo, Sierpinski3D

GroIMP 0.9.6 is now available for download. This includes the 3D-CS construction set of Michael Henke and a lot of bug-fixes and minor enhancements of existing features. The license has changed from GPL v2 to GPL v3.