ParaView 3 Telecon 04-03-2008
| Item | People | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chart Task Force | VTK/ParaView Charts |
| 2 | Shead | GUI Plugins |
| 3 | All | ParaView 3.4 Deliverables |
| 4 | Karelitz | MARS issues |
| 5 | Karelitz | V&V Milestone |
| 6 | Geveci | Ideas about testing |
VTK/ParaView Charts
Checked in. Seems to be working OK. Waiting for more input.
Remaining bug: selecting series in line charts.
Considering doing the move to VTK as part of the next Titan move.
GUI Plugins
Tim sent out a few screen shots showing infovis components in ParaView as part of plugins. Plugins are working "really well." Have graph sources, table readers, database readers, custom displays, and more all working in ParaView.
Some issues that have come up. It would be great if you could register a custom view handler from a plugin. You cannot incorporate custom view options. Tim will create a bug report for this.
Because they are putting together a custom client that is more targeted for infovis, one thing Tim would like to do is to be able to control the set of filters that are in the menu. Utkarsh says there is a way around this. He will send an email to Tim about it.
Tim predicts there will be many new features needed with selection.
Deliverables
Multiblock (Utkarsh, Berk, ETI)
The only thing left is to get charts to work with multiblock data.
Code for rendering volume rendering a single block is under way.
SILO Reader (Pat)
Pat is working with Alan. Alan ran into some issues. Pat is working with Alan to figure out what is going on.
Selection (Berk, Utkarsh)
Multiblock selection works. Done for this release. You can also see selected multiblock in spreadsheet.
ParaView/Titan Chart Merger (Jeff, Utkarsh, Philippe, ETI)
See above.
Volume Rendering Algorithm Chooser (Pat)
In queue.
Plot multiple points/cells over time (Berk)
Can now probe multiple points over time. However, you cannot chart it if the input is multiblock.
Textures (Utkarsh)
Done unless there is time to implement assigning any array to texture coordinates.
2D Image View type (Utkarsh)
No new work.
Box and Sphere Widgets (Will)
Will said he is working on it. Should be working before the release.
In queue.
Custom filter cleanup (Utkarsh)
Done unless we have time left over.
MARS Issues and V&V Milestone
Lisa sent email late in the day about some errors that she got. She wonders if they are the probable cause of the ParaView crash or if it was something else. Charles has not had a chance to look at them yet.
Crash happened after save state and during save data. When Lisa tried to bring up the state file, ParaView crashed when it was getting to the last part of the state.
Reminder: we need to be finished with the technical work by June 4. This means working well enough to demonstrate the capability on our large scale data/clusters. It will probably take several passes after the intital implementation to get there.
Ideas about testing
Did not get to.
