[Paraview] Announcing ParaView 3.2.1 (stable)

[David Farrell]

It looks like the link to the OS X PPC Unix-style tarball is pointing  
to the 3.2.0 version still, but the 3.2.1 version is indeed available  
and downloadable (I changed the link manually in my browser to check).

Dave


On Nov 19, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Berk Geveci wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Kitware, Sandia National Laboratories, CSimSoft and Los Alamos  
> Laboratory
> are proud to announce the release of ParaView 3.2.1 (stable). You can
> download it from
> http://paraview.org/HTML/Download.html.
>
> This release includes the following enhancements/fixes:
>
> * New animation view for viewing, creating, modifying animations. This
> is improved version of the ParaView 2.6 animation tracks. We have made
> it more intuitive and easier to use.
> * The "Element Inspector" has been replaced by brand new "Spreadsheet"
> view which makes it possible to view the raw data produced by any
> source/filter.
> * Filters with multiple outputs and inputs are now supported. This
> opened doors for several new filter such as glyph with custom source,
> stream tracer with custom point source etc.
> * There are several improvements to charts including support for  
> vector
> data in line charts (magnitude or component), support for labels,  
> titles
> and legends, custom chart axes end points.
> * Selection support has undergone a major overhaul. It is now possible
> to select cells (or points) on surface of geometry or within a view
> frustum by simply dragging on the 3D view. The properties of the
> selection can be inspected/changed using the brand new "Selection
> Inspector" accessible through the "View" menu. "Extract Selection"
> filter can be used to extract the selected cells or points. Labels can
> be used to label the selected cells or points.
> * Support for eXtensible Data model and Format (XDMF) files is back  
> and
> improved to support composite datasets, quadratic elements, mixed
> topologies. It is now possible to change domain and grid selections  
> as well.
> * We are working on making ParaView totally at ease with composite  
> data
> sets. As a part of the process histogram (and soon probe) filters now
> work with composite datasets. The python client can fetch composite
> datasets as well as perform operations such as min/max/sum on these  
> dataset.
> * A new python module is introduced which makes dealing with proxies
> convenient. A separate document is available describing these python
> enhancements.
> * This version has many GUI usability improvements including but
> definitely not limited to:
>   - view based and application settings.
>   - using mouse clicks for picking center of rotation, point widget
> location.
> * We are constantly trying to make the documentation better. The  
> online
> help has been extended to include the new functionality added since  
> 3.0.
>
> We would like to acknowledge Sandia Labs and Los Alamos Lab for their
> continuing support and funding.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Berk Geveci
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David E. Farrell
Graduate Student
Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
email: d-farrell2 at northwestern.edu


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