ParaQ:Summit 08/2005

31 August 2005

Attendees

Kitware

• Andrej Cedilnik
• Berk Geveci
• Ken Martin
• Amy Squillacote

Sandia

• Ken Morland
• Brian Wylie
• Gary Temple
• Andy Wilson
• David Rogers
• David Kareliz
• Matt Wong

ParaView 'Areas of Improvement' Notes

• State
  • There are problems when a state is applied to a different file
• Wizards
  • Open/write a file
• Cut/Copy/Paste
• Functional vs. implementation
• Object selection/operation interactions (like a drawing package)
  • "bold", "italic", like Word
• Logical grouping
  • Processing elements (filters, sources)
  • Hierarchical attributes
  • Data objects
• Configurable interface
  • Macro (including UI definition)
  • Skinning (implementation of branding)
• Selection is a first class operation
• Undo/Redo
• 'Too many clicks'
• Need 'Abort' operation
• Presentation output
  • Movies
  • Images
  • Plotting output
• Multiview
  • Linking
  • Views
  • Timesteps
  • Colormaps
  • Cutplanes
  • Timstep
  • Cutplane
  • Attributes
  • Glyphs
• "Specialness of some objects"
  • They aren't consistently represented in UI
• Quantitative/Drill down
  • Interactive vs. static
  • Plotting (reference BLOT?)
    • 2D
    • 3D
• General export (not just from probe)
• Time
• Hide implementation
  • Logical vs. filter operations
  • Point/Cell cenetered data
• Hierarchy representation
• Intelligent browsing
• Global Accept
  • Show 'out of sync'
• Integrated