[Paraview] ANNOUNCE: ParaView 3.4.0 released

Fri Oct 17 16:26:43 EDT 2008

Hmmm. I think that may be a performance issue. If the pvd file does
not contain the time values, the reader would have to open all of the
files in order to get that information.

-berk

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Dan Goldstein <dan at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> ok, Now I understand.
> I thought that time step information had been rolled into the xml file
> (.vtu.vtp..)
> Currently I embe the time step line, that will be used in a pvd file, in my
> .vtu files
> as a comment line. I then use a little shell script to build a pvd for all
> .vtu files in a
> given directory. This works fine, I just thought there might now be a more
> standard way to do it.
> It's low priority for me, but it does seem like adding a standard XML tag
> for time into XML vtk files
> would be good. Then when the time aware reader reads in the file series to
> animate, it would have access to the
> time associated with each file.
>
> Dan
>
> On Oct 17, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Berk Geveci wrote:
>
>> 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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