Paraview is an open source application, which supports multiple platforms and is capable of visualizing data sets of variable sizes ranging from small ones down to the large sized bulky ones. The application incorporates a highly flexible, intuitive user interface, which makes it a truly easy-to-use program.
The software makes use of the Visualization Tool Kit (VTK) internally, which is also an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics. It highly aids in performing image processing and visualization and is popularly used by many researchers and developers, comprising of a C++ class library, along with many interpreted interface layers such as Tcl/Tk, Python and Java.
Paraview performs data processing and acts a powerful rendering engine featuring the amazingly simple, yet effective user interface written using Qt. Basically, ParaView runs on distributed as well as shared memory for both single and parallel processor systems.
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The application has been run successfully on almost all platforms right from Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, down to several other Unix workstations, supercomputers and clusters thus delivering awesome functionality over virtually any platform.
v5.8.0 [Jan 29, 2020]
Readers and filters.
- AMR Dual Clip and Contour Accept invalid input datasets.
- Parallel Resample to Image pipeline doesn’t propagate all data.
- Clip filter: Crinkle clip performs a slice rather than a clip.
- AMReX Boxlib Grid Reader fails to the read coordinate range.
- Paraview 5.8.0-RC3 VTK-xml reader: cell offsets cant be unsigned ints.
- amrex: failed to read amrex 2D particles.
- VTP Loading Apparent Regression 5.6.0->5.8.0.
- CGNS files don’t read point data.
- ExtractBlock does not Propagate Global Field Data.
- default Piece Distribution method.
- Glyph filter sometimes produces misplaced arrows.
- Cell size filter dies with CTH AMR.
- Intermittent errors in Cell Centers.
- Glyph filter and stream tracer filter do not propagate Global Field Data.
- AggregateDataSet filter runs into MPI size constraint.
- ParaView 5.8 crashes when slicing nested multi-block in parallel.
Rendering and image export.
- Color legend always shows up in bottom left corner when exporting to EPS or PDF.
- Low resolution vector graphics output.
- Preview mode and window resize.
- Color Map Mapping Data histogram gets confused.
- OpenGL warning when using Zoom to Box.
- Surface with Edges creates extra edges.
- SaveStateAndScreenshot Plugin.
- Create 1280 X 720 preview.
- Preview size not preserved in Save Screenshot for multiple views.
- Background color should be preserved and set by pvsm infrastructure.
- ParaView Preview Resolution not set on PVSM reload.
- Preview mode does not rescale text correctly.
Catalyst.
- File output from Catalyst kills ParaView.
- Export Inspector, Image Extract, Cinema Image database Advanced Options Window incorrectly named.
- Annotate Global Data filter does not work with HyperTree Grids.
- Export Inspector: allow selecting of root directory for pvserver configs.
- writer for vtkNonOverlappingAMR in Catalyst.
User interface and interaction.
- [5.6 rc2] Reset Session reset all customized MACROS shortcuts.
- Preferences -> Camera -> 2D & 3D Mouse Wheel Factor Slider Widgets Inoperable.
- Enhancement Request: Native 3D Connexion Support on macOS.
- AnimationView mode has incorrect behavior when loading a dataset with timesteps.
- Export Inspector: bad Qt layout.
- Add back PARAVIEW_AUTOLOAD_PLUGIN_XXX or similar.
- Paraview 5.8.0 UI elements are too large.
- Grow and Shrink Selection does not work with Find Data.
- text location not shown correctly in GUI.
- Crash on View -> Output Messages during reverse connection.
- error message: Unexpected call to selectionChanged..
- Find data multiple expressions error.
- Find data: Subsetting query causes “ValueError: setting an array element with a sequence.”.
- Keep “Waiting for Server Connection” panel on top of GUI when waiting for connection.
- Find Data breaks with multiple expressions on multiblock data.
- PolyLine source points can’t be changed manually in the GUI.
- Icons for Plot Global Variables Over Time and Plot Selection Over Time are flipped.
Build and installation.
- macOS Catalina: ParaView-5.7.0-MPI-OSX10.12-Python2.7-64bit.pkg” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software..
- ParaView build fails on arm clusters.
- Catalyst: Node class from vtkPlotEdges.cxx name-collides with linked simulations (SPARC).
- Follow-up from “Fix paraview-config script”.
- Spack ParaView should contain ‘-DVTK_ENABLE_KITS:BOOL=ON’.
- Runtime crash on Cray, Debug builds.
- paraview build fails first time through due to cinema-related build order issue on stria/ARM.
- Remove unnecessary Python 2 conflict in ParaView’s Spack file.
- Spack: ParaView installs libraries to prefix/lib64 but creates empty prefix/lib making ParaView’s modulefile invalid.
Third-party library updates.
- Upgrade ParaView CGNS version to 4.0.0.
- Update vendored expat to 2.2.9.
Miscellaneous bug fixes.
- Segfault calling VisRTX_GetContext() at startup.
