[Paraview-developers] ANN: ParaView 3.8.1 Available for download

[Dave Partyka]

Hello All,

The Development packages have also now been refreshed for 3.8.1 and can be
found on our download page:

http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html

Also, the AcuSolveReaderPlugin has been update for 3.8.1 and can be
downloaded here:

http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/plugins.html

Thanks!

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Dave Partyka <dave.partyka at kitware.com>wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the ParaView
> 3.8.1 binaries for download on the ParaView download page.
>
> http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html
>
> Release Notes:
>
> ParaView 3.8.1 is a patch release over 3.8.0 with a a small set of
> improvements. Some of noteworthy improvements/fixes are:
>
> ParaView now comes HDF5 1.8.5. This enables developers to create
> readers/plugins for ParaView that use newer versions of HDF5 easily. Also we
> are now including the C++ and the high level (hl) versions of the libraryfor
> those who wish to use their newer API.
>
> Along the same note the version of NetCDF included in VTK has also been
> upgraded to version 4.1.1 allowing users to take advantage of the latest
> enhancements to NetCDF. Additionally the  C++ version of the library is now
> also available.
>
> Among the improvements are two new file formats. The first is a netcdf
> based reader for MPAS format ocean and atmosphere data sets. The second,
> available in source form only is a reader plugin that allows ParaView to
> read multi-resolution wavelet compressed VAPOR data format files. Thanks to
> John Clyne and Dan Legreca for contributing the VAPOR plugin.
>
> We have improved the support for animation scripting through Python. The
> new API is more coherant with the rest of ParaView Python API avoid the need
> for script writers to know the minute details of how to create animations
> using proxies. Tracing capabilies for animation were also revised.
>
> GPU volume ray cast mapper for voxel datasets now works in tile display
> mode as well.
>
> In keeping with our on going improvements of the ParaView's charting
> capabilities, we have included a few more fixes regarding labels and axes
> placements.
>
> We also cleaned up ParaView build and install rules so that developers
> don't have to worry about 'rpath' anymore. Also "make install" has been
> vastly improved on all platforms.
>
> This release also includes a material interface extraction filter thattakes
> a cell data volume fraction and generates a polydata surface. It also
> performs connectivity on the particles and generates a particle index as
> part of the cell data of the output. It computes the volume of each particle
> from the volume fraction. The filter is accessible from the Material
> Analysis category in the Filters menu.
>
> Also, CoProcessing/in-situ processing has been added to ParaView.  It
> includes 2 parts: a client side plugin that creates python scripts and a
> server side library that can be called from a simulation code to output both
> images and data sets based on the created python script. For more details go
> to http://paraview.org/Wiki/CoProcessing.
>
> Updated development installers will also follow shortly.
>
> As always, we rely on your feedback to make ParaView better. Please use
> http://paraview.uservoice.com/ or click on the "Tell us what you think"
> link on paraview.org to leave your feedback and vote for new features.
>
>
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