[Paraview] ANN: ParaView 3.12.0 RC-2 available for download

Fri Oct 7 02:14:43 EDT 2011

Hi Fabian, I cannot reproduce (OS X 64bit / Ubuntu 10.04 64bit). Can
you isolate whether it is specific to OpeFOAM data or not? If it is,
can you share a test case?

Takuya

Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN

From: Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem at gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] ANN: ParaView 3.12.0 RC-2 available for download
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:13:39 +0200

> Hello,
> 
> just tested it on linux 64bit with openfoam decomposed data.
> Making a slice and applying "Surface Vectors" results in a
> Segmentation fault.
> 
> It would be great to fix this in the 3.12.
> 
> Best Regards
> Fabian
> 
> On 10/04/2011 11:24 PM, David Partyka wrote:
>> I Joe, can you redownload the tarball. I forgot to include the version
>> file in the tarball which the version calculation code uses when there
>> isn't a git repository. If it still doesn't work let me know. Thanks!
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:22 PM, joseph insley <insley at mcs.anl.gov
>> <mailto:insley at mcs.anl.gov>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     I have a question about the source distribution of 3.12.0 RC-2.   I
>>     understand from a message from Utkarsh back in August that the way
>>     that version numbers are determined has changed, and now requires a
>>     call to "git describe".  After downloading the source tarball from
>>     http://paraview.org/files/v3.12/ParaView-3.12.0-RC2.tar.gz, my
>>     attempt to build failed, apparently while attempting to call git
>>     describe.  So, my question is, will git now become a dependency for
>>     building release versions of ParaView?  Or is this call currently
>>     still in there because this is still just a release candidate, and
>>     not yet an official release?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     joe.
>>
>>     On Sep 29, 2011, at 2:39 PM, David Partyka wrote:
>>
>>>     The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the
>>>     ParaView 3.12.0 Release Candidate 2 binaries for download on the
>>>     ParaView (http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html).
>>>     ParaView 3.12 can be considered as a bug-fix release with over
>>>     180 issues resolved. The detailed list can be found at
>>>     http://www.paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php.
>>>
>>>     With Python being one of the preferred means of interacting with
>>>     ParaView, we've added support to create animation tracks that use
>>>     Python scripts to build highly customized animations.
>>>
>>>     Plugins support is one of the strong points of ParaView and with
>>>     this release, we've made it easier to load deployed plugins on the
>>>     server processes as well. All distributed plugins are now listed
>>>     on the client as well as the server side.
>>>
>>>     The release includes updates to LANL's streaming framework.
>>>     The multiresolution streaming view now automatically adjusts
>>>     resolution to match the projected image size. Also, VTK filters
>>>     are now able to modify meta-information which means they can
>>>     modify the data while still allowing the streaming framework to
>>>     cull and prioritize pieces. An example is a new spherical warp
>>>     filter that projects flat data onto the globe while correctly
>>>     tracking piece bounding boxes.
>>>
>>>     Also, there are updates to support users of the cosmology
>>>     and windblade formats. For example the MaskPoints filter (used to
>>>     place glyphs and in other places) was updated with new options
>>>     that improve random sampling in parallel. Likewise VTK's Gaussian
>>>     Splatter filter is now exposed in ParaView which makes it easy to
>>>     visualize point set data with imaging filters. The cosmo and
>>>     windblade readers have also been revised.
>>>
>>>     This version includes some major changes under the
>>>     covers. ParaView 3.12 includes improvements to the underpinnings
>>>     of ParaView ServerManager. The communication layer under the
>>>     ParaView ServerManager was upgraded to minimize communication as
>>>     well as making it easier to debug and trace messages being
>>>     exchanged between client and server. We now use Google Protocol
>>>     Buffers, for example, to exchange messages between client and server.
>>>
>>>     In addition, there are several small but notable improvements
>>>     included in this release for example, the views now use caching to
>>>     avoid re-renders from repaints due to menus and dialogs popup up
>>>     on the screen; volume rendering of uniform grids now supports
>>>     shading; ability to enable specular highlights when using scalar
>>>     coloring and others.
>>>
>>>     The updated userguide can be accessed at:
>>>     http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Table_Of_Contents
>>>     Or in PDF form at:
>>>     http://paraview.org/files/v3.12/ParaView%20Users%20Guide%20v3.12.pdf
>>>
>>>     The development team has adopted a git-workflow-based development
>>>     process that is integrated with the ParaView Bug Tracker
>>>     (http://paraview.org/Bug). The workflow enables us to track every
>>>     change that goes into ParaView and maintain a stable repository.
>>>
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>>
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