Release Notes¶

Version 0.4 (April 2021)¶

Added the geometry module to perform rigid body geometry operations such as creating frames, homogeneous transforms, multiplying series of matrices, converting from local to global coordinates and vice-versa, and extracting Euler angles from homogeneous transforms.
Added the span option to cycles.time_normalize, so that cycles can be normalized between other ranges than 0% to 100%. Both reducing span (e.g., 10% to 90%) and increasing span (e.g., -25 to 125%) work.
Added the to_html5 method to Player, which allows visualizing 3d markers and bodies in Jupyter.
Added the rename_event method to TimeSeries.

Added test coverage measurement for continuous improvement of code robustness.
Added warnings when using private or unstable functions.
Changed the website to use the ReadTheDoc theme, and changed its structure to facilitate continuous improvements of the website without needing to wait for releases.

The default behaviour for TimeSeries.remove_event changed when no occurrence is defined. Previously, only the first occurrence was removed. Now every occurrence is removed.
In cycles.time_normalize, the way to time-normalize between two events of the same name changed from event_name, _ to event_name, event_name.

Added the cycles module to detect, time-normalize and stack cycles (e.g., gait cycles, wheelchair propulsion cycles, etc.)
Added the pushrimkinetics module to read files from instrumented wheelchair wheels, reconstruct the pushrim kinetics, remove dynamic offsets in kinetic signals, and perform speed and power calculation for analysing spatiotemporal and kinetic parameters of wheelchair propulsion.
Added lab mode to allow importing ktk without changing defaults.
Added ktk.filters.deriv() to derivate TimeSeries.
Added ktk.filters.median(), which is a running median filter function.

The module name has been changed from ktk to kineticstoolkit. Importing using import ktk is now deprecated and the standard way to import is now either import kineticstoolkit as ktk or import kineticstoolkit.lab as ktk.
Now importing Kinetics Toolkit does not change IPython’s representation of dicts or matplotlib’s defaults. This allows using ktk’s functions without modifying the current working environment. The old behaviour is now the lab mode and is the recommended way to import Kinetics Toolkit in an IPython-based environment: import kineticstoolkit.lab as ktk.

Added the functions ktk.load and ktk.save.
Introduced the ktk.zip file format.
Added the gui module to show messages, input dialogs and file/folder pickers.
Added the filters module with TimeSeries wrappers for scipy’s butterworth and savitsky-golay filters.
Added interactive methods to TimeSeries: TimeSeries.ui_add_event(), TimeSeries.ui_get_ts_between_clicks() and TimeSeries.ui_sync() (experimental).
Added TimeSeries.remove_event() method.
Added TimeSeries.resample() (experimental).

TimeSeries.from_dataframe() is now a class function and not an instance method anymore. Therefore we need to call ktk.TimeSeries.from_dataframe(dataframe) instead of ktk.TimeSeries().from_dataframe(dataframe).
Now depends on python 3.8 instead of 3.7.