[Paraview] Announcing ParaView 3.2.1 (stable)

[Berk Geveci]

One of these days, I will get it right :-) I will fix it when I get to work.

-berk

On 11/20/07, David Farrell <d-farrell2 at northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
> 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 * The "Element Inspector" has been replaced by brand new "Spreadsheet"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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