# Public prototype and monthly update

## July 14, 2021

In case you wondered where your beloved monthly update is, it was delayed due to us working on a big announcement:

We released version 0.5, our so called public prototype.

So now why is this big? (Apart from being a project milestone, which you couldn’t care less about I guess)

This is the first release that is being tested for application in operational hazard mapping.

To achieve this, quite a few things changed:

- Version 0.4 saw us switching to our own code for the dense flow module com1DFA. The original module is still available, but our development efforts will now focus on the new one.

- With version 0.5 we completely overhauled and updated the documentation to include things like:

  - updated descriptions of the modules
  - installation instructions for Windows
  - new DFA algorithm description page
  - and many more changes…

- We created a new repository for the connection between QGis and AvaFrame. This means you can run our operational workflow from inside QGis. It is a setup for running com1DFA (dense flow) and com2AB (alpha beta), in which you can change release thicknesses and run multiple scenarios, but the rest of the setup is according to our current default setup.

- and many more functional changes under the hood, see the main ones in our release notes.

- Together with C. Tollinger (Fachzentrum f. Geologie und Lawinen, WLV) we developed a visualisation of the main peak variables based on colormaps that works better for people with vision deficiencies (e.g. red/green blindness). These plots now work for normal vision, red/green deficiency and in grayscale. See examples for the test case ALR at the end of this post.

We invite you to give this version a try, but expect some rough edges. But whatever you do, enjoy your summer (or your winter for the southern hemisphere people out there)!

Signing out for summer,

Felix

Peak flow depth

Peak flow pressure

Peak flow velocity

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