Welcome to the Stencil communications website. Here you will find the news, plans and downloadable copies of Stencil, the system for declarative visualization of dynamic data. If you have any questions, comments, bugs or success stories, please contact me. I would enjoy hearing from anybody using or interested in using Stencil (contact me via e-mail at jcottam@indiana.ed). Jan 2012 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_31Jan2012.zip ./stencil/releases/src_31Jan2012.zip Switched to a Y-is-up convention. Version used in dissertation defense. Detailed operator data, including per-facet counterpart. Sept 2011 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_09Sep2011.zip ./stencil/releases/src_09Sep2011.zip Faster text rendering. Removed sigil from custom-arg parsing, just use curlies. Jul/Aug 2011 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_20Aug2011.zip ./stencil/releases/src_20Aug2011.zip Maintenance release after Jun (updated documentation). Fixed concurrent update issues. Expanded support for implantation in guide system. Uses ANTLR 3.4. Jun2011 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_28Jun2011.zip ./stencil/releases/src_28Jun2011.zip Column store and associated renderers, new default name resolution system (breaks many old stencil programs). Many error fixes and speed improvements. Apr2011 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_Apr2011.zip ./stencil/releases/src_Apr2011.zip Udated guide system: Better defaults, modified from syntax, cross product and multi guides. Jan11 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_Jan11.zip ./stencil/releases/src_Jan11.zip Integrated java compiler for declared operators. Java annotations for module/operator/facet meta-data. Speed improvements in interpreter. Binary format and generalized queing in tuple streams. Apr10 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_Apr10.zip ./stencil/releases/src_Apr10.zip Stream-to-stream operations. Includes Map and Fold in addition to passs operation (with * and LAST tuple references to support). Generalized some parts of autoguide. YML meta-data system. Auto-conversion of argument and return types in imported operators (can infer module def from meta-data under limited circumstances). TextArc example included. Mar10 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_Mar10.zip ./stencil/releases/src_Mar10.zip Implemented auto-guide system for continuous, categorical and summarization (basic system). Operator calls all done reflectively (uses improved meta-data system). Nov09 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_Nov09.zip ./stencil/releases/src_Nov09.zip Stencil as seen at InfoVis 2009 Oct09 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_Oct09.zip ./stencil/releases/src_Oct09.zip 28Aug09 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_28Aug09.zip ./stencil/releases/src_28Aug09.zip Includes dynamic binding, automatic guide generation, expanded set of provided legends and many speed improvements. Also includes the frameworks for importable modules, external module meta-data, new adapters and all tuples have prototypes. (Sources file includes test cases now). 12Feb09 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_12Feb09.zip Stream ordering, prototype modules mechanism, additional stream sources and fewer temporary objects in the interpreter. 14Nov08 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_14Nov08.zip ./stencil/releases/src_14Nov08.zip Improved database stream-source support. 10Nvo08 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_10Nov08.zip ./stencil/releases/src_10Nov08.zip Stencil, as it appeared at InfoVis'08, plus draft versions of the dyanmic binding and range specialization. 23Jun08 ./stencil/releases/Stencil_23Jul08.tar.gz This is Stencil, more-or-less as it appeared at IV'08.