[Paraview] ANNOUNCE: ParaView 3.4.0 released

[Berk Geveci]

It is not a format change. It is now possible to load file series of
xml files. For example, if you have

foo_0.vtu
foo_1.vtu
...

you can open them as a group and animate through the series. Were you
looking for something else?

-berk

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Dan Goldstein <dan at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> Sounds Great!
> Can you point us to documentation on XML vtk file format changes related to
> file series?
>
> * Added support for file series of XML based VTK files.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dan
>
>
> On Oct 17, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Berk Geveci wrote:
>
>> The ParaView 3.4 release is now available for download from the
>> ParaView web site (http://paraview.org). It is also available through
>> CVS; the tag is ParaView-3-4-0. Since the 3.2 release, we have been
>> focusing on usability and 3.4 contains many improvements and bug
>> fixes.
>>
>> The major changes since 3.4 are:
>> * VTK and ParaView are now licensed under the BSD license as opposed
>> to modified BSD.
>> * The multi*block and AMR support was improved significantly. Almost
>> all filters, spreadsheet view and charts now support these datasets.
>> * The selection capabilities of ParaView were significantly improved.
>> For details, see Kitware Source, issue 6 or
>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/Data_Selection.
>> * Some of other improvements and fixes are
>>
>> New features
>>
>> * Added support for plotting multiple point/cell values over time.
>> * Save screenshot now allows saving of all views.
>> * It is not possible to save higher resolution screenshots.
>> * Added support for picking end*points of lines widgets (used in plot
>> over line and streamlines) using 'p'.
>> * Added support for scene exporters. Supported formats are X3D (binary
>> and ascii), VRML 2 and POV (Persistence of Vision Raytracer).
>> * Added ability to open multiple CTH and Exodus restart files.
>> * Added temporal statistics filter that can be used to find average,
>> min, max and standard deviation of arrays over time.
>> * Added support for choosing (picking) custom center of rotation.
>> * Added volume rendering support for multi*block datasets. The user
>> now chooses which block to volume render.
>> * Added filter to append all blocks of a multi*block dataset to one
>> unstructured grid. Can be used to volume render the whole multi*block
>> dataset.
>> * Added support to color by block.
>> * Added 2D views / slice representation for volumes (vtkImageData).
>> * Added box and sphere widgets for slicing and clipping.
>> * Added cube axes that can be used to show scale of a dataset.
>> * Added support to color by AMR level.
>> * Added support to turn on/off the visibility of multiple objects.
>> Select multiple objects in the pipeline browser and click on one of
>> the eyeballs.
>> * Added multiple selection using ctrl (command on Mac). When
>> performing selection after the first time, hold ctrl to add to the
>> existing selection.
>> * Added "Normal Glyphs" custom filter.
>> * Added "zoom" to individual arrays in the spreadsheet view.
>> Double*click on the title*bar to activate/deactivate.
>> * Added support for displaying textures on polygonal data.
>>
>> Improvements to Existing Features
>>
>> * Plugin improvements. See the plugin page on the wiki for more
>> information. http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Plugin_HowTo
>> * Added option to disable offscreen rendering while saving images.
>> This option should be turned on if ParaView crashes when saving
>> images. This is to get around an OpenGL bug that is on some Linux
>> Intel drivers.
>> * Added option to disable depth peeling when rendering translucent
>> geometry. Some graphics card drivers claim to support everything that
>> is needed for depth peeling while not implementing them. If you are
>> experience crashes when transparency is on, disable depth peeling.
>> * Added easily accessible menu to select the component of a vector to
>> color by.
>> * Added support for plotting more than one component of a vector on
>> the same chart.
>> * Plot over line now works with multi*block and AMR data.
>> * CTH reader now combines X, Y and Z velocity components into a vector.
>> * Added button to rescale to data range in bar charts.
>> * Changed the default width of the scalar bar to a more reasonable
>> size. Also tweaked the way scalar bar scaling works.
>> * Improved partial array support (when an array exists only in some of
>> the blocks of a multi*block dataset).
>> * Added selection support for composite datasets.
>> * Added chooser for unstructured volume rendering algorithm.
>> * Added support for selecting array in gradient filter for image data.
>> Removed gradient magnitude. Use gradient + array calculator.
>> * Many comparative view fixes.
>> * Many tiled*display fixes.
>> * Many widgets used a few digit precision for floating point numbers
>> making it impossible to use higher precision. Fixed.
>>
>> Reader and Writer Improvements
>>
>> * Added readers for MFIX and Fluent files to the GUI.
>> * Added support for loading file series from the command line as well
>> as from the recent file menu.
>> * Added SILO reader. Needs more work.
>> * Added support to save multi*block polygonal datasets as a collection
>> of STL or PLY files.
>> * Added support for file series of XML based VTK files.
>> * Updated XDMF reader to XDMF 2.
>>
>> Bug Fixes
>>
>> * Point coordinates were not shown in the spreadsheet view if there
>> were no point arrays. Fixed.
>> * Calculator function was not reloaded with state. Fixed.
>> * Annotation text was not scaling properly when rendering
>> high*resolution animations/images. Fixed.
>> * Color by menu was not updated in some cases. Fixed.
>> * CTH reader was not handling missing files gracefully. Fixed.
>> * Selection inspector could not display labels for global element ids.
>> Fixed.
>> * Loading state reseted to time step 0, fixed.
>> * Pipeline was not always updating when time was shifted. Fixed.
>> * Fixed crash when using  Edit *> Delete All.
>> * Fixed installation with VTK_USE_RPATH on.
>> * Selection did not work in parallel if compositing was off. Fixed.
>> * Selection labels were not updated during animation. Fixed.
>> * Several undo/redo fixes.
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