Hi all,<div><br></div><div>The ParaView 3.6.2 release is now imminent! At this time I would like to provide the latest set of binaries (Release Candidate 3) to anyone interested in trying them out whilst I tag the repository and generate the final binaries. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Win32: <a href="http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview-3.6.2-rc3-win32-x86.exe">http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview-3.6.2-rc3-win32-x86.exe</a></div><div>Win64: <a href="http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview-3.6.2-rc3-win64-x86.exe">http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview-3.6.2-rc3-win64-x86.exe</a></div>
<div>Linux32: <a href="http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview-3.6.2-rc3-Linux32-x86.tar.gz">http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview-3.6.2-rc3-Linux32-x86.tar.gz</a></div><div>Linux64: <a href="http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview-3.6.2-rc3-Linux64-x86.tar.gz">http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview-3.6.2-rc3-Linux64-x86.tar.gz</a></div>
<div>Mac App: <a href="http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview.app-3.6.2-rc3-Darwin-universal.dmg">http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview.app-3.6.2-rc3-Darwin-universal.dmg</a></div><div>Mac Command Line: <a href="http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview.cl-3.6.2-rc3-Darwin-universal.tar.gz">http://www.paraview.org/files/v3.6/paraview.cl-3.6.2-rc3-Darwin-universal.tar.gz</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Two significant new features to 3.6.2 are that the Mac application bundle and comand line tools are now built as universal binaries (PPC and Intel i386). This simplifies our build process by reducing the number of packages we maintain. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The second difference is the inclusion of the VisTrails plugin in the Windows and Linux packages. VisTrails is an open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system developed at the University of Utah that provides support for data exploration and visualization. Whereas workflows have been traditionally used to automate repetitive tasks, for applications that are exploratory in nature, such as simulations, data analysis and visualization, very little is repeated---change is the norm. See <a href="http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/Main_Page</a> to learn more.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Release notes that appeared in the October Kitware Source describe further new features:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">ParaView's Python interface was revamped, an exciting new extension to the Paraview Python interface is Python trace. The goal of trace is to generate human readable, not overly verbose, Python scripts that mimic a user's actions in the GUI. See the "Python Trace" article on page 6 of the October 2009 Kitware Source for more details.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br>ParaView 3.6.2 also include a collection of statistics algorithms. You can compute descriptive statistics (mean, variance, min, max, skewness, kurtosis), compute contingency tables, perform k-means analysis, examine correlations between arrays, and perform principal component analysis on arrays. More information about these filters is available on the ParaView Wiki at <a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Statistical_analysis" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Statistical_analysis</a>.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Please feel free to notify me of any issues experienced with these binaries.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Happy Holidays!</span></font></div>