[ANN] Mayavi-4.4.1 release

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

Hello,

Enthought is pleased to announce Mayavi-4.4.1.  Mayavi is a general purpose,
cross-platform Python package for 2-D and 3-D scientific data visualization.
Mayavi integrates seamlessly with numpy and provides a convenient Pythonic
wrapper for the VTK API.  It provides a high-level visualization API that sits
on top of the powerful VTK (http://www.vtk.org) library. It provides a
stand-alone UI to help visualize your data. Mayavi is easy to extend and embed
in your own dialogs and UIs.

For more information see here:

  http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/index.html

Mayavi-4.4.0 is available as part of the free Canopy
(https://store.enthought.com/downloads/) packages.  4.4.1 will be available soon.

This is a major public release as this is the first public version of Mayavi to
support VTK-6.x and also support VTK-5.x.  Mayavi-4.4.1 (and 4.4.0) should work
with all VTK 6.x releases as well as the latest development version. We did have
a 4.4.0 release but did not announce it widely. For more details on the
enhancements and fixes please see here:

http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/auto/changes.html#mayavi-4-4-1

and here:

http://docs.enthought.com/mayavi/mayavi/auto/changes.html#mayavi-4-4-0

This release is important as this will allow us to track major improvements that
are part of the VTK-6.x releases.


We are thankful to the following for their contributions towards this release:

Deepak Surti, Prabhu Ramachandran, Robert Kern, Mark Kness, Ioannis Tziakos,
Mark Dickinson, Paul Müller, Gael Varoquaux

cheers,
Mayavi Developers