VTK 5.6 Release Planning

Planned Schedule

• Preparation email: February 4th, 2010
  • On the developers' mailing list
• Create VTK-5-6 branch: TBD
• Release VTK 5.6.0: TBD

What's New in VTK 5.6?

New features in VTK since the 5.4 release include:

• Improved chart support
• Classes moved from vtkEdge (vtkGPUVolumeRayCastMapper & associated classes. What else?)
• 211 new C++ classes.
• 91 new C++ tests running on most dashboards
• 17 new C++ examples that demonstrate how to use VTK effectively.
• More robust EnSight reader.
• Addition of Tecplot reader.
• Accurate anti-jagginess streamline integrator
• Incremental / dynamic octree-based point locator for fast point location and insertion of non-uniformly distributed points (3 times faster than the previous version).
• Integration of robust cell location to vector evaluation on complex grids.
• High-performance table-based clipper for various kinds of grids (one to two orders of magnitude faster than the previous version).
• Addition of GPU-based real time Line Integral Convolution (LIC) with enhanced image contrast and LIC+geometry compositing for dense vector field / flow visualization.

API Changes

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OpenGL requirements

Same as VTK 5.2 (?): See this section in the Frequently asked questions (FAQ)