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Hi All,<br><br>
The ParaView 2.2 beta release (version 2.2.0) is now available for
download from the ParaView web site:
<a href="http://www.paraview.org/HTML/Download.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.paraview.org/HTML/Download.html</a>. It is also
available through CVS; the tag is ParaView-2-2-0. If you find bugs
in the release, please e-mail me; preferably also send me a patch file to
fix the problem. There have been several changes since the 2.0
release of ParaView; they include the following.<br><br>
* projected tetra unstructured grid volume rendering<br>
* zsweep unstructured grid volume rendering<br>
* choice of still render methods for unstructured grid volume rendering
(ray cast, zsweep, projected tetra)<br>
* RenderModules/Displays are now ServerManager proxies.<br>
* Added support to animate the Camera.<br>
*Enhance XML format to support Time Steps<br>
* allow people to write XML file through a C or Fortran interface (more
VTK than ParaView really).<br>
* Comparative visualization. First prototype for comparative
visualization framework.<br>
* Better AMR support. Made many improvements and bug fixes to the AMR
framework. Added several filters, including filters for extracting
levels, coloring by levels. This is ongoing work.<br>
* New SPCTH reader and new Extract CTH Part filter that work now by using
a vtkHierarchicalDataSet instead of a vtkCTHData. (<b>Note</b>:
now, a file opened with extension .spcth will run the new reader, the
exact same file with extension .amrspcth will run the old reader based on
vtkCTHData.)<br>
* Xdmf reader: now it can deals with "collection" of datasets
by grouping them into a vtkHierarchicalDataSet.<br><br>
The web site lists precompiled binaries for Windows and Linux. We
are working on one for Mac OSX.<br><br>
Hope you enjoy the new release.<br><br>
Amy Squillacote<br>
Kitware, Inc.</body>
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