This may be of interest to some people here.
I've visited with the ParaView developers, and hopefully in the very
near future we'll have a few working examples of interoperability
between ParaView and yt. There's overlap between the two tools, but
there are also some pretty interesting and compelling places of
synergy.
-Matt
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From: David Partyka
Date: Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 2:04 PM
Subject: [Paraview] ANN: ParaView 3.10.0 Available for download.
To: ParaView Developers , ParaView
Hello All,
The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the
ParaView 3.10.0 final binaries for download on the ParaView download
page.
http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html
Release Notes:
ParaView 3.10
This release features notable developments, including mechanisms to
incorporate advanced rendering techniques, improved support for
readers and several usability enhancements and bug fixes.
For the 3.10 release, we have added 60 new readers. The new readers
include: ANSYS, CGNS, Chombo, Dyna3D, Enzo, Mili, Miranda, Nastran,
Pixie, Samrai, Silo, and Tecplot Binary. A full listing of supported
readers can be found in the ParaView Users Guide. We also added the
ability for developers to create ParaView reader plugins from
previously developed VisIt reader plugins. You can find a full guide
on how to do this on the VisIt Database Bridge:
http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/VisIt_Database_Bridge
With this release we have rewritten the ParaView User's Guide and are
making it freely available for the first time. The complete guide can
be obtained in the help system or online at:
http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Table_Of_Contents.
We have included a Python-based calculator which makes it possible to
write operations using Python. The Python calculator uses NumPy, which
lets you use advanced functions such as gradients, curls, and
divergence easily in expressions. Also the NumPy module is packaged in
the ParaView binary and is importable from the ParaView Python shell.
There should also be a marked performance improvement for users
dealing with large multi-block datasets. We have cleaned up the
rendering pipeline to better handle composite datasets, avoiding the
appending of all blocks into a single dataset as was done previously.
To better utilize multiple cores on modern multi-core machines, by
default ParaView can now run using a parallel server, even for the
built-in mode. This enables the use of all the cores for parallel data
processing, without requiring the user to start a parallel server.
ParaView binaries will also be distributed using an MPI
implementation, making this feature available to users by simply
downloading the binaries. Since this is an experimental feature, it is
off by default, but users can turn it on by checking the Auto-MPI
checkbox in the application settings dialog.
Additionally, the 3.10 release includes several usability
enhancements. 3D View now supports smart context menus, accessed by
right-clicking on any object in the 3D View to change its color,
representation, color map and visibility. Left-clicking on an object
in the 3D View makes it active in the pipeline browser. Within the
spreadsheet view, sorting is now supported and an advanced parallel
sorting algorithm ensures that none of the benefits of the spreadsheet
view, such as streaming and selection, are sacrificed. Python tracing
and macro controls are no longer hidden on the Python shell dialog and
instead are now easily found on the Tools menu.
For developers interested in adding support for advanced multi-pass
rendering algorithms to ParaView, this release includes a major
refactoring of ParaView's rendering pipeline. View and representations
have been redesigned and users should see improved performance in
client-server mode from reduced interprocess communication during
rendering.
LANL's MantaView interactive ray tracing plugin has been restructured
to make it easier to use. Version 2.0 of the plugin is now multi-view
capable and no longer requires ParaView to be run in a client/server
configuration. Similarly both of LANL's streaming aware ParaView
derived applications have been merged into ParaView proper in the form
of a new View plugin. The underlying streaming algorithms have been
rewritten to be more usable and extensible. Both plugins are available
in standard binary package for the first time in this release.
For an exhaustive list of the new features and bug-fixes, please refer
to the change log at: http://www.paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php.
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.
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