ParaView 3.6 Deliverables

Name	Description	Owner
ParaView/Titan Chart Merger	If not already complete.
Tables	Make vtkTables a supported pipeline object type. It should have its own icon in the pipeline browser. The default view should probably be spreadsheet. Charting components (XY plot, histogram, stacked chart, etc.) should support tables as an input (other input types like rectilinear grid may be unnecessary). Plotting filters (plot over time, plot over time, histogram) should output tables. csv readers/writers should work principally (perhaps exclusively) with tables. Support reading other delimited text files. Simple conversion from tables to other data (such as collection of points).
Multicore	Multi-core desktops are becoming commonplace. It is now reasonable for a user to invest in an 8 core desktop with several GB of memory in lieu of a visualization cluster. Unfortunately, ParaView has no good way of taking advantage of the multiple cores.
D4	Time to get rolling on the next generation distributed data decomposition filter. D4 Design
Simplified state/scripting	Right now getting any scripting in ParaView has a high learning curve. State files are unreadable and almost completely uneditable. To do any scripting at all, you need to learn a significant chunk of Python bindings. To make this easier, ParaView should output a much more friendly way of scripting things. Either the state written out should be much simpler (show only the things that pertain to the current view) or be able to write out a very simplified Python script to get back to the state, or both.
Particle Support	Leverage the work from CSCS. 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) Filters for meshless data? (Need to get customer requirements.) Sampling point cloud? Surface extraction?
Movie view	Add movie file readers that behave like an image reader the supports time. When viewed in a 2D image view with the time controls, ParaView becomes a simple movie viewer.
Temporal cleanup	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
Animate display properties	Need to restore the ability to animate display properties (visibility, opacity, maybe actor transform). The complication is now that we have multiview there is a big UI issue in associating the display property to one (or more?) views.
Custom filter cleanup	Replace the "wizard" with a single dialog which can be used to edit all of the features at once. Reuse this dialog to implement an edit custom filter feature. Implement links in custom filters.
Shaders	Implementation in 2.6 is "experimental" and does not seem to be of any practical use to anyone. Utkarsh is working on new GPU pipeline stuff. Next generation should take advantage of that.