ParaView 3 Telecon 04-17-2008

Item	People	Description
1	Chart Task Force	VTK/ParaView Charts
2	All	ParaView 3.4 Deliverables
3	Karelitz	MARS issues
4	Karelitz	V&V Milestone
5	Moreland	Scalar Bar Tickmarks
6	Moreland	Vis tutorial

VTK/ParaView Charts

Last Week:

Added selection for stack chart and bar chart. Fixed a few typos in selection code. Checked in yesterday.

Supported strings in axis layout.

A few things missing to get new charts fully feature compliant with current ParaView chart.

This Week:

Log scale is working. Checked in on Monday. Fixed selection bug in line chart.

Should be done modulo some bugs. There are a few missing features for stacked chart.

Tim's Corner

Thankful for Overview feature requests.

Utkarsh will be Tim's point of contact for any features he wants to add to ParaView.

Tim had a problem (moment of confusion) with StringListDomain. The default is not being set as he would expect.

Deliverables

Multiblock (Utkarsh, Berk, ETI)

Last Week:

Need to get charting to work with multiblocks.

Volume rendering single block is mostly done, but not committed.

Dave is tying up a few loose ends with the Exodus reader. He hopes to be finished this weekend.

This Week:

Plotting multiblock data still remains.

Still need to name multiblocks. (in bug tracker)

There are some selection issues. (in bug tracker)

There are large number of block issues. (in bug tracker)

Volume rendering may not be committed. Also need a filter that takes a multiblock data an appends all the blocks into an unstructured grid.

Dave T. still trying to track down hanging issue when loading with multiple server processes. Other than that, it should be ready.

We still need an Exodus writer.

SILO Reader (Pat)

Last Week:

Problems were all Alan's fault. Once the files themselves were corrected, they loaded fine.

This Week:

As far as we know, everything is working fine. Exception, as with the exodus reader there are some major efficiency issues with large numbers of blocks.

Selection (Berk, Utkarsh)

Last Week:

Mostly done. Block selection still under way.

This Week:

Done.

ParaView/Titan Chart Merger (Jeff, Utkarsh, Philippe, ETI)

See above.

Volume Rendering Algorithm Chooser (Pat)

Last Week:

Not started.

This Week:

Not started.

Plot multiple points/cells over time (Berk)

Last Week:

Done, except the output is multiblock so that does not yet work with the charts (see above).

Fast path also needs to be fixed.

This Week:

No change.

Textures (Utkarsh)

Done unless there is time to implement assigning any array to texture coordinates.

2D Image View type (Utkarsh)

Last Week:

No progress.

This Week:

Started work today.

Box and Sphere Widgets (Will)

Will said he is working on it. Should be working before the release.

It better be before Monday, since they are freezing and branching VTK.

Custom filter cleanup (Utkarsh)

Done unless we have time left over.

MARS Issues and V&V Milestone

Last Week:

Lisa may need to re-prioritize the requests.

This Week:

Lisa can now input geometry into Cubit, but cannot mesh it.

The fragment extractor is working. More work has been done to the fragment extractor to make it more user friendly and feature rich.

Vis Tutorial

Idea for tutorial this year: collect experts for different features of ParaView and let each one teach the topic for about 1 hr. Suggested invitees:

Tim Shead	Vertical Apps
Tim Shead	InfoVis (InfoVis + SciVis?)
Utkarsh (maybe Dave DeMarle)	Python scripting
Utkarsh	Selection
Ken?	Plugins
Ken? CSCS?	Temporal Filters
CSCS	Particles
Dave Thompson	Higher Order Elements