GPlates 1.0.0 released

GPlates 1.0.0 released

What's new in version 1.0:-

  • The ability to create and visualise flowlines and motion paths of points across plates.
  • A new Small Circle tool, to help visualise stage rotations.
  • When closing, GPlates will remember the files that you had loaded. The new Recent Session menu allows you to re-open files from a previous session.
  • The viewport can now be annotated with text including the current reconstruction time.
  • The background colour of the globe and graticule resolution can be configured.
  • Layers can now be toggled on and off in the Layers dialog.
  • The default Rotation layer can also be controlled directly from the Layers dialog.
  • A preview of a new Total Reconstruction Sequences dialog to enable more powerful control over the rotations.
  • ...as well as a host of other improvements throughout the application.

GPlates 1.0 compiles and runs on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Linux and MacOS X. Download GPlates 1.0 from the Download page.

GPlates-compatible data have been made available. For more information, see the Download page.