[vtkusers] announce: vtk 6.2.0 release candidate 1 is ready

Wed Feb 25 20:33:38 EST 2015

What is this file?
C:/Dev/Qt5.4.0/5.4/msvc2013_64_opengl/lib/cmake/Qt5Core/Qt5CoreMacros.cmake
Maybe it needs "COPY_ONLY" replaced with "COPYONLY"

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Dženan Zukić <dzenanz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> I managed to select CMake configuration options which cause a mysterious
> error: configure_file called with unknown argument(s): COPY_ONLY.
>
> Attached are my changes to the configuration and CMake's configure log
> (error is at the end).
>
> Regards
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 4:43 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com
> > wrote:
>
>> The VTK developement team is happy to announce that VTK 6.2 has entered
>> the release candidate stage!
>>
>> You can find the source, data, and new vtkpython binary packages here:
>>
>> http://www.vtk.org/VTK/resources/software.html#latestcand
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> The official release notes will be available when VTK final is released
>> in the next few weeks. In the meantime here is a preview:
>>
>> --
>>
>> 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>.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>    -
>>
>>    removed -fobjc-gc from VTK_REQUIRED_OBJCXX_FLAGS
>>    -
>>
>>    Rewrote the OS X Cocoa mouse event handling code to make it more
>>    robust.
>>
>>
>> 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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