v0.16.0 (Faster Visualizer)
View this release on GitHub → Release Date: July 14, 2026
A visualizer performance release. The 3D point-cloud viewer is now far lighter on the CPU — enough to run comfortably on laptops with integrated graphics — with no change to how point clouds look. There are no API changes.
Interface contract:
carbon-interfacev1.3.3 (unchanged from v0.15.0) Firmware compatibility: unchanged from v0.15.0
Performance
- The visualizer uses dramatically less CPU. End to end, the point-cloud viewer process now uses roughly half the CPU it did; the rendering work itself — what this release rewrote — dropped by more than an order of magnitude. It runs comfortably on laptops with integrated graphics, and point clouds render identically.
- The region-of-interest (ROI) filter is much faster. Turning on the filter no longer causes a large drop in visualizer performance.
Behavior Changes
- The visualizer’s “Point Quality” dropdown is replaced by “Point Style: Square / Round.” The previous Square/Low/Medium/High quality levels collapse to two shapes, with Round the default. Round points are visually identical to the previous default points, and all shapes now cost the same to render — so shape is now purely a visual preference, not a performance setting.
Documentation
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