Fedora 20 Update: paraview-4.1.0-1.fc20

Wed Feb 26 14:02:07 UTC 2014

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-1495
2014-01-25 01:26:52
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Name        : paraview
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 4.1.0
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://www.paraview.org/
Summary     : Parallel visualization application
Description :
ParaView is an application designed with the need to visualize large data
sets in mind. The goals of the ParaView project include the following:

    * Develop an open-source, multi-platform visualization application.
    * Support distributed computation models to process large data sets.
    * Create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface.
    * Develop an extensible architecture based on open standards.

ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single
processor systems and has been successfully tested on Windows, Linux and
various Unix workstations and clusters. Under the hood, ParaView uses the
Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and rendering engine and has a
user interface written using a unique blend of Tcl/Tk and C++.

NOTE: The version in this package has NOT been compiled with MPI support.

Install the paraview-openmpi package to get a version compiled with openmpi.

Install the paraview-mpich package to get a version compiled with mpich.

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Update Information:

Update to ParaView 4.1.0. With over 170 issues resolved, this release includes several bug fixes and feature enhancements. For a detailed list of issues resolved, refer to the change log (http://paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php).  Some of the notable enhancements in this release are as follows:

- Redesigned Color Map Editor panel

This release introduces a completely designed panel for editing color and opacity transfer functions for scalar coloring. The panel, which is now a dockable widget, instead of a popup dialog, makes it easier to edit transfer functions as well as edit labels and annotations on the color legend or scalar bar. This also makes it easier to access some of the functionality introduced in the previous version of ParaView, such as categorical colors. It is now easier to edit transfer functions when using log scaling as the transfer function editor view now switches to log space.

- Enhancements to Find Data dialog

Find Data dialog, introduced several versions ago, has quickly become of the main mechanisms for creating new selections. However, until now, if the user created selection using some other mechanism, such as selecting cells in the 3D view, the Find Data dialog could not be used to inspect that selection. One had to use what was called the Selection Inspector. That has now been changed. Find Data dialog has been updated to always show the active selection, no matter how it was created.

Selection Inspector panel has been removed. Selection Inspector was primarily used to control how selections are labelled, their font properties, etc. One can affect these directly from the Find Data dialog or the new Selection Display Inspector which is dockable panel specially designed for picking selection labels, label properties, or showing the selection frustum for frustum based selections.

- Enhancements for interactions with Plots

Inspired by plots in matplotlib, individual axes in line and bar charts can  now be zoomed by right-clicking and dragging along the x- or y- axis. Of course, one can still drag diagonally to scale both axes as before. Also the the user interactions for making new selections in line chart view have been cleaned up to be more consistent with the render view.

- Support for Python-based views

This release adds mechanisms to enable Python developers to integrate views that use libraries such as matplotlib for rendering. This will make it possible to take ParaView’s charting capabilities even further. More details on how to create such views can be found on Kitware blog (http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/588).

- SurfaceLIC and support for Parallel Rendering

One of the notable community contributions for this release includes extensions to the ParaView Line Integral Convolution contributed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Details can be found on the Wiki (http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Line_Integral_Convolution). The implementation has been designed to work with composite data in parallel and includes a number of customizations that facilitate interactive data exploration.

Surface LIC showing coherent structures in the magnetic fields of turbulent plasma.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jan 21 2014 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> - 4.1.0-1
- Update to 4.1.0 final
- Drop cstddef patch applied upstream
* Mon Dec 30 2013 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> - 4.1.0-0.1.rc2
- Rebase install patch
- Add patch to include needed cstddef for gcc 4.8.2
- Set VTK_INSTALL_DATA_DIR
- Set QtTesting_* install macros
* Fri Dec 27 2013 Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> - 4.1.0-0.1.rc2
- Update to 4.1.0-RC2
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1050918 - ImportError: No module named vtkCommonCorePython
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1050918
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update paraview' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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