Lagrange Release v6.17.0

Infrastructure and Dependencies

• CMake updates:
  • More robust handling of BUILD_SHARED_LIBS (enabled CMP0077 and CMP0126)
  • Fixed soname and install behavior for MKL and Arpack
  • Min CMake version bumped to 3.25
• Fix floating-point issues in unit test for Xcode 14+
• Minor compile fixes for C++20
• Fix UBSan issues
  • In core module with lagrange::safe_cast()

SurfaceMesh Updates

• Fix combine_meshes() for hybrid meshes (e.g. quad dominant)
• 5x speedup in remove_duplicate_facets()
• Fix corner merging in tangent/bitangent computation to match mikktspace
• unify_index_buffer() now supports edge attributes
• New tag AttributeUsage::Position
• New transform_mesh() function to apply affine transform to a mesh
  • Transformations applied based on usage tag (Position/Normal/Tangent/Bitangent)

IO Module

• Fix loading of property lists in .ply