The calling of virtual methods has been removed from constructors & destructors:
math_BissecNewton
math_BrentMinimum
math_FRPR
math_FunctionSetRoot
math_NewtonFunctionSetRoot
math_NewtonMinimum
math_Powell
The patch changes the algorithm of choosing the initial approximation for Newton's method. Instead of searching for a point on the fine shifted grid, the algorithm performs initial search for candidate points in the original coarse grid (which is cached in new version). After that particle swarm optimization (PSO) is used to localize the global minimum. This algorithm optimizes a problem by having a population of candidate solutions ("particles"), and moving these particles around in the search-space according to simple mathematical formula over the particle's position and velocity. Each particle's movement is influenced by its local best known position but, is also guided toward the best known positions in the search-space, which are updated as better positions are found by other particles. This strategy has reported good results in solving complex global optimization problems.
Current patch implements initial version of PSO for using in Extrema_GenExtCS class. Typically new approach allows to reduce the number of evaluations by 5-10 times. There are only few cases there the numbers of evaluations are comparable.
License statement text corrected; compiler warnings caused by Bison 2.41 disabled for MSVC; a few other compiler warnings on 54-bit Windows eliminated by appropriate type cast
Wrong license statements corrected in several files.
Copyright and license statements added in XSD and GLSL files.
Copyright year updated in some files.
Obsolete documentation files removed from DrawResources.
Removing pPotentially uninitialized local variable
Got rid of most of warnings C4701: Potentially uninitialized local variable
Removed redundant variable definitions.
Refactored a part of AppParCurves_ResolConstraint CTOR.
Replaced 0. to Precision::Confusion for tolerance vars;
Changed values for min and max parameter vars;
Got rid of redundant variables' initialization.
Data member myIsDivergent was added to class math_FunctionSetRoot.
The member is initialized in method Perform start by Standard_False. The member is changed in the method to Standard_True if an approximation point is located outside of search set.
Method IsDivergent was added to class math_FunctionSetRoot.
The method returns value of myIsDivergent.
Parameter theStopOnDivergent with default value Standard_False was added to
a constructor and method Perform of class math_FunctionSetRoot.
The parameter shows whether return from method Perform if myIsDivergent
became Standard_True.
Class Extrema_GenExtCS was optimized for dynamic memory consumption:
the class surface values are not stored now.
Method Perform of class Extrema_GenExtCS was improved for local extreme
search in case of iteration algorithm divergence. Size of the algorithm
grid cell for initial approximation is reduced by 2 in the case. The count
of the reduces is limited.
Build fix in *.cdl.
Case of extrusion was carried out of the repeat loop.
Division method of the 3-dimensional grid (curve param, surface first
param, surface second param) by two was replaced by method of moving the
grid.
The moving method is about two times faster than division method.
Now grid moving method is depending on some average linear sizes of the curve and the surface.
In case (theStopOnDivergent && myIsDivergent) method math_FunctionSetRoot::Perform sets Done to Standard_False and discard it's last solution.
Test case for the bug fix.
Test case correction
Initial approximation was corrected for search of maximum in Extrema_GenExtCS::Perform.
Test case bugs moddata_3 bug23830 was formatted.
