<div dir="ltr"><div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Gerrick Bivins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Gerrick.Bivins@halliburton.com" target="_blank">Gerrick.Bivins@halliburton.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">“</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">VTK’s dashboards now automatically build redistributable packages
on Windows, Linux and Mac that will allow us to feed Maven”<u></u><u></u></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This is awesome!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed!</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Are there plans to upload these to maven central?</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I believe that is the plan. Sebastien will have the details.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Or even something like Jcenter:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="https://bintray.com/bintray/jcenter" target="_blank">https://bintray.com/bintray/jcenter</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> vtk-developers [mailto:<a href="mailto:vtk-developers-bounces@vtk.org" target="_blank">vtk-developers-bounces@vtk.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>David E DeMarle<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 16, 2015 3:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> vtkdev; <a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org" target="_blank">vtkusers@vtk.org</a>; Kitware Corporate Communications<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [vtk-developers] announce: vtk 6.2.0 release candidate 1 is ready<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The VTK developement team is happy to announce that VTK 6.2 has entered the release candidate stage!</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">You can find the source, data, and new vtkpython binary packages here:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><a href="http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#latestcand" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#latestcand</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please try this version of VTK and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker so that we can try to address them before VTK 6.2.0 final.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The official release notes will be available when VTK final is released in the next few weeks. In the meantime here is a preview:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">VTK’s use of the parallelism available in modern architectures continues to mature. To set the stage for this move, we have refactored how pieces and
extents are handled in the pipeline. The pipeline used to inject extent translators into the pipeline to obtain structured sub-extents for each requested unstructured piece. This approach had flaws so now the translation responsibility falls to the readers
which are best able to make the computation and parallel filters are now responsible for dealing gracefully with unexpected extents. Next we have we have updated to the latest version of the Dax toolkit and begun to lay the groundwork for adopting the vtk-m
project as a successor to the Piston, Dax, and EAVL efforts. There have been a series of minor improvements to the SMP framework and vtkSMP filters too as we get ready to adopt them in a large swath of VTK’s algorithms. In related work, note that we have
begun to support Xeon Phi (MIC) chips. For information about this please refer to: h</span><a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_and_VTK_on_Xeon_Phi_%28KNC%29" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ttp://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_and_VTK_on_Xeon_Phi_%28KNC%29</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Similarly VTK’s support for the Web continues to advance in this release. VTK-Web has migrated to WAMP 2.0 in 6.2 and there are now complete and updated
examples of using the web launcher to start vtkweb applications. vtkWeb applications now support http-only server/client configurations for situations when websockets are not acceptable. There were also improvements made to VTK to support the creation and
use of Cinema and Workbench applications (in-situ deferred visualization) that are described in a SuperComputing 2015 paper “An Image-based Approach to Extreme Scale In Situ Visualization and Analysis”</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Wrapped languages have gotten a share of the attention in this release. There have been several fixes for ActiViz.Net which was recently updated from
5.8 to VTK 6.1 and will soon be updated again to 6.2. The Tcl examples have finally been upgraded following modularization and note that it is now mandatory to invoke the method Start on the instance of vtkRenderInteractor from Tcl. In Java, vtkPanel’s behavior
was changed to better support advanced class loader system like OSGI. VTK’s dashboards now automatically build redistributable packages on Windows, Linux and Mac that will allow us to feed Maven.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Python has received the heaviest dose of updates. Wrapped namespaces and enum types are now available in Python. We’ve also made significant improvements
to the VTK-numpy integration by introducing a number of Python modules that provide numpy-compatible interfaces to VTK data structures. See
</span><a href="http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/723" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/723</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> for
details. We’ve also introduced vtkPythonAlgorithm, which makes it easier than ever to quickly extend VTK with filters that are written directly in Python. See
</span><a href="http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/737" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/737</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> for
details.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">VTK’s rendering is making both evolutionary and revolutionary advances in this release. The evolutionary changes include the usual number of incremental
improvements. These include such things like advanced color and display controls, "sticky" axes mode for vtkCubeAxesActor, out of range color assignments, and indexed color lookups for vtkStringArrays. There are also a number of text rendering improvements
such as better multiline, rotated, and aligned text as well as BackgroundColor and BackgroundOpacity options.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The revolutionary changes can be found in the OpenGL2 modules. These are under active development at the moment, and the API will be subject to change
in the next release, but early adopters are encouraged to try it out and report their experiences with it on the mailing list. OpenGL2 is a rewrite of VTK’s rendering backend that brings VTK up to date with modern OpenGL programming practices. By replacing
antiquated rendering techniques with modern ones, we have increased rendering performance by orders of magnitude in some situations. This work, funded by the NIH VTK Maintenance grant touches both surface and volume rendering techniques. You can read about
OpenGL2 at: </span><a href="http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/144" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/144</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
and </span><a href="http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/154" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/154</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Besides the above progress some of the most notable changes in VTK 6.2 include</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">deprecated InfovisParallel<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">vtkIOXdmf3, an interface to ARL’s greatly improved interface to HDF5 backed data storage<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">added a reader and writer for NIfTI files, including the 64-bit NIfTI-2 format<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">added support for SpaceMouse devices<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">external rendering support for immersive environments <a href="http://kitware.com/blog/home/post/688" target="_blank">http://kitware.com/blog/home/post/688</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">removed -fobjc-gc from VTK_REQUIRED_OBJCXX_FLAGS
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Rewrote the OS X Cocoa mouse event handling code to make it more robust.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We hope you enjoy this release of VTK! As always contact Kitware and the mailing lists for assistance.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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