[vtk-developers] [EXTERNAL] announce: vtk 6.2.0 release candidate 1 is ready

[David E DeMarle]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Gerrick Bivins <
Gerrick.Bivins at halliburton.com> wrote:

>  *“**VTK’s dashboards now automatically build redistributable packages on
> Windows, Linux and Mac that will allow us to feed Maven”*
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> This is awesome!
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Agreed!


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> Are there plans to upload these to maven central?
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I believe that is the plan. Sebastien will have the details.


> Or even something like Jcenter:
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> https://bintray.com/bintray/jcenter
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> https://bintray.com/howbintrayworks
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> Gerrick
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> *From:* vtk-developers [mailto:vtk-developers-bounces at vtk.org] *On Behalf
> Of *David E DeMarle
> *Sent:* Monday, February 16, 2015 3:43 PM
> *To:* vtkdev; vtkusers at vtk.org; Kitware Corporate Communications
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [vtk-developers] announce: vtk 6.2.0 release
> candidate 1 is ready
>
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> The VTK developement team is happy to announce that VTK 6.2 has entered
> the release candidate stage!
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> You can find the source, data, and new vtkpython binary packages here:
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> http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#latestcand
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> Please try this version of VTK and report any issues to the list or the
> bug tracker so that we can try to address them before VTK 6.2.0 final.
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>
> The official release notes will be available when VTK final is released in
> the next few weeks. In the meantime here is a preview:
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>
> --
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> VTK’s use of the parallelism available in modern architectures continues
> to mature. To set the stage for this move, we have refactored how pieces
> and extents are handled in the pipeline. The pipeline used to inject extent
> translators into the pipeline to obtain structured sub-extents for each
> requested unstructured piece. This approach had flaws so now the
> translation responsibility falls to the readers which are best able to make
> the computation and parallel filters are now responsible for dealing
> gracefully with unexpected extents. Next we have we have updated to the
> latest version of the Dax toolkit and begun to lay the groundwork for
> adopting the vtk-m project as a successor to the Piston, Dax, and EAVL
> efforts. There have  been a series of minor improvements to the SMP
> framework and vtkSMP filters too as we get ready to adopt them in a large
> swath of VTK’s algorithms. In related work, note that we have begun to
> support Xeon Phi (MIC) chips. For information about this please refer to: h
> ttp://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_and_VTK_on_Xeon_Phi_%28KNC%29
> <http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_and_VTK_on_Xeon_Phi_%28KNC%29>.
>
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> Similarly VTK’s support for the Web continues to advance in this release.
> VTK-Web has migrated to WAMP 2.0 in 6.2 and there are now complete and
> updated examples of using the web launcher to start vtkweb applications.
> vtkWeb applications now support http-only server/client configurations for
> situations when websockets are not acceptable. There were also improvements
> made to VTK to support the creation and use of Cinema and Workbench
> applications (in-situ deferred visualization) that are described in a
> SuperComputing 2015 paper “An Image-based Approach to Extreme Scale In Situ
> Visualization and Analysis”
>
>
>
> Wrapped languages have gotten a share of the attention in this release.
> There have been several fixes for ActiViz.Net which was recently updated
> from 5.8 to VTK 6.1 and will soon be updated again to 6.2. The Tcl examples
> have finally been upgraded following modularization and note that it is now
> mandatory to invoke the method Start on the instance of vtkRenderInteractor
> from Tcl. In Java, vtkPanel’s behavior was changed to better support
> advanced class loader system like OSGI. VTK’s dashboards now automatically
> build redistributable packages on Windows, Linux and Mac that will allow us
> to feed Maven.
>
>
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> Python has received the heaviest dose of updates. Wrapped namespaces and
> enum types are now available in Python. We’ve also made significant
> improvements to the VTK-numpy integration by introducing a number of Python
> modules that provide numpy-compatible interfaces to VTK data structures.
> See http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/723 for details. We’ve also
> introduced vtkPythonAlgorithm, which makes it easier than ever to quickly
> extend VTK with filters that are written directly in Python. See
> http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/737 for details.
>
>
>
> VTK’s rendering is making both evolutionary and revolutionary advances in
> this release. The evolutionary changes include the usual number of
> incremental improvements. These include such things like advanced color and
> display controls, "sticky" axes mode for vtkCubeAxesActor, out of range
> color assignments, and indexed color lookups for vtkStringArrays. There are
> also a number of text rendering improvements such as better  multiline,
> rotated, and aligned text as well as BackgroundColor and BackgroundOpacity
> options.
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> The revolutionary changes can be found in the OpenGL2 modules. These are
> under active development at the moment, and the API will be subject to
> change in the next release, but early adopters are encouraged to try it out
> and report their experiences with it on the mailing list. OpenGL2 is a
> rewrite of VTK’s rendering backend that brings VTK up to date with modern
> OpenGL programming practices. By replacing antiquated rendering techniques
> with modern ones, we have increased rendering performance by orders of
> magnitude in some situations. This work, funded by the NIH VTK Maintenance
> grant touches both surface and volume rendering techniques. You can read
> about OpenGL2 at: http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/144 and
> http://www.kitware.com/source/home/post/154
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> Besides the above progress some of the most notable changes in VTK 6.2
> include
>
> ·         deprecated InfovisParallel
>
> ·         vtkIOXdmf3, an interface to ARL’s greatly improved interface to
> HDF5 backed data storage
>
> ·         added a reader and writer for NIfTI files, including the 64-bit
> NIfTI-2 format
>
> ·         added support for SpaceMouse devices
>
> ·         external rendering support for immersive environments
> http://kitware.com/blog/home/post/688
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> ·         removed -fobjc-gc from VTK_REQUIRED_OBJCXX_FLAGS
>
> ·         Rewrote the OS X Cocoa mouse event handling code to make it
> more robust.
>
>
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> We hope you enjoy this release of VTK! As always contact Kitware and the
> mailing lists for assistance.
>
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
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