[Paraview] ParaView 3.8.0 Available for download

[Michael Jackson]

What is the git branch/tag for this release?
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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net

On May 27, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Dave Partyka wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Kitware, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National  
> Laboratory are proud to announce the release of ParaView 3.8.0. The  
> binaries and sources are available for download from the ParaView  
> website (http://www.paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html).  
> This release includes several performance improvements, bug fixes  
> for users, and plenty of new features for plugin and application  
> developers. We have made it easier to locate cells/points in your  
> dataset using queries. Search the ParaView Wiki for "Find Data using  
> Queries" for more information.
>
> The plugin loading and management dialog was redesigned to make it  
> easier to load plugins. It's now possible to configure plugins to be  
> auto-loaded every time ParaView starts. We've added support for  
> plotting over curves and intersection lines using the filters "Plot  
> On Sorted Lines" and "Plot On Intersection Curves".
>
> A couple of GPU-based rendering/visualization techniques have been  
> incorporated along with GPU-based volume rendering support for 3D  
> image volumes, which is accessible through the "Volume Mapper"  
> option on the Display tab. Support for Line Integral Convolution  
> (LIC) is available as a plugin; this support can be used for  
> visualizing vector fields over arbitrary surfaces.
>
> ParaView now includes (in source form only) an interface to the  
> University of Utah's Manta interactive software ray tracing engine.  
> The Manta plugin provides a new 3D View type which uses Manta  
> instead of OpenGL for rendering. The plugin is primarily being  
> developed for visualization of large datasets on parallel machines.  
> In single processor configuration it has the benefit of allowing  
> realistic rendering effects such as shadows, translucency and  
> reflection.
>
> In terms of performance improvements, we've greatly improved the  
> first render time for datasets with large numbers of blocks. Raw  
> image reading for parallel file systems underwent a major overhaul  
> making it fast and efficient. Options were added to the Settings  
> dialog to fine tune image compression, improving interactivity when  
> remote rendering over connections with varying bandwidths.
>
> After the introducing Python tracing in the previous release, we  
> have expanded the purview of tracing to include selections, lookup  
> tables, and implicit functions.
>
> For climate simulation folks, this release includes support for  
> NetCDF with CF (Climate and Forecast) conventions. For cosmology  
> researchers, the Cosmo plugin has been substantially revised. The  
> major improvement is that the plugin now works in a data parallel  
> fashion, so that it can be used with higher resolution simulation  
> results. We have reintroduced basic support for CAVE rendering which  
> was lost since the major overhaul for ParaView 3.0.
>
> Several new readers have been contributed: WindBlade a reader for  
> wind turbine and fire simulation data, VPIC a reader for particle  
> and cell physics simulation data, and netcdf POP a reader for POP  
> ocean simulation data in a netcdf container format.
>
> AdaptiveParaView, a new experimental application developed using the  
> ParaView application framework is also now available in source  
> format. Like StreamingParaView, AdaptiveParaView processes  
> structured datasets in a piecewise fashion, omitting pieces which  
> are unimportant, in order to make it possible to visualize datasets  
> which do not otherwise fit in RAM. AdaptiveParaView differs from  
> prior work in that it renders pieces in a multi-resolution manner,  
> initially producing low-resolution images and then progressively  
> filling in greater detail within the viewing frustum. This  
> application still contains many experimental features and is not yet  
> documented, but we encourage users to try it out and report bugs and  
> feature requests.
>
> PVBlot is a command tool for batch or interactive processing of  
> Exodus data files. It is provided as a plugin. The commands create  
> various mesh visualzations and XY plots of variable versus time, or  
> variable versus variable. The plugin adds an interactive pvblot  
> console to the ParaView Tools menu. Documentation for PVBlot is  
> built into the tool, just type 'help' or 'help '. The SierraTools  
> plugin provides pvblot-like features but exposes the functionality  
> through toolbar buttons and dialogs in place of text commands.
>
> There are several other fixes including those for charting and  
> plotting, wireframes for quadratic surfaces, and for dealing with  
> temporal ranges.
>
> For developers, this release includes major changes to the core  
> ParaView libraries making it easier to create and deploy custom  
> applications based on the ParaView framework. This enables  
> developers to create applications with fundamentally different  
> workflows than that of ParaView while still leveraging ParaView's  
> parallel processing and large data visualization capabilities.  
> Search for "Writing Custom Applications" on the ParaView Wiki for  
> details.
>
> The plugin framework has undergone an overhaul as well, making it  
> easier to debug issues with loading of plugins as well as support  
> for importing plugins in static applications.
>
> Starting with ParaView 3.8, we will be releasing development  
> binaries for ParaView, which will make it easier for developers to  
> build and distribute plugins that are compatible with the binaries  
> downloaded from our website. These development binaries will be  
> available 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.
>
> The ParaView Team.
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