ParaView 3.4 Deliverables

Right now this is just a capturing of the features we would like to see. We will have to go back to organize and decide what we will actually be doing.

• Multiblock
  • Exodus reader/writer
  • Volume rendering
  • Selection
  • Filters working on
  • Coloring by block
  • Composite Data Inspector, shows structure of composite data, lets you turn parts off
• Cube axis
• Textures
• Shaders
• Movie view (for validation comparisons)
  • 2D Image View type
  • Movie reader (outputs image with time)
• Plugin improvements
  • No "server" plugins for builtin
    • Plugins loaded for "client" also load server plugins for builtin
    • Server widgets grayed out when connected to builtin
  • Remember previous loaded plugins
    • Allow to autoload on startup or connection or start manually
    • Do something reasonable if the file disappears between runs
    • Use Windows services application for inspiration
  • Add CMake ability to automatically create qrc files from GUI side XML.
• Move chart package to VTK
• Selection
  • Cleanup implementation (render ids directly)
  • Selection of values rendered on screen (Selection of blocks in multiblock, selection of thresholds etc)
  • Either disable button when <24 bit w/ stencil or make it work.
  • Make Selection Controls Toolbar adaptive to reflect options in active View
  • Enable thresholds selection and integrate with bar chart view
  • Frustum widget, once you make through selection, push its sides or scale/translate it
• 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
• XDMF Full tree reader and writer (ARL)