ParaView 3 Telecon 12-18-2008

Item	People	Description
1	Ice	MARS/V&V Milestone issues
2	Moreland	ParaView 3.6 Deliverables

MARS

Make vtkTables a supported pipeline object type.
Done.
- It should have its own icon in the pipeline browser.
  Not yet. Should be straightforward.
- The default view should probably be spreadsheet.
  Done.
Charting components (XY plot, histogram, stacked chart, etc.) should support tables as an input (other input types like rectilinear grid may be unnecessary).
Done.
Plotting filters (plot over line, plot over time, histogram) should output tables.
Histogram outputs tables. Plot over time should be doing multiblock of tables. Need to check the rest of the data analysis plotting filters.
csv readers/writers should work principally (perhaps exclusively) with tables.
Readers read in data into tables. Writers can write out tables.

Want to support writing out any data set as a csv by selecting what to write.
Support reading other delimited text files.
CSV dialog has ability to change delimiters.
Simple conversion from tables to other data (such as collection of points).
Working on next.

Can open csv file. It will load in as a table and show in a spreadsheet view.

Pat is working on VTK charts. He is also designing them so that we can use them in ParaView.

Ongoing.

Show temporal bounds of all datasets in statistics view (or elsewhere)
Show continuous data set temporal bounds in info page
Plot/Probe over time, results should very in Sequence, Snap, and Real Time modes

Not started yet. John Biddiscombe has been looking at it.

Not started.

No progress.

Phillipe not here today. Berk says he is hearing progress being made.

Provide a particle representation that renders points more intelligently
- Spheres with size vs. squares of pixel width
- Optional sizing based on a scalar
- Appropriate alpha blending (at least when particles are small)
- Splatting?
Filters for meshless data? (Need to get customer requirements.)
- Sampling point cloud?
- Surface extraction?

Not started yet.