On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Is there a particular reason that you asked about compatibility with > ParaView's views/representations ? > < > > I know that overview (as a paraview client app) was killed off, so I was > aware that support for some of the paraview related infovis would fall > behind. However, I also know that the infovis development within vtk proper > is still carrying on. So really I was curious if the paraview integration was > itself the root of the problem, or whether it was other issues. If the vtk > infovis views/representations are all paraview friendly, then in principle, > given a bit of hard work, all the infovis stuff can be used in paraview. > Around the time when paraview's view/representation stuff was overhauled (for > the Nth time), the infovis stuff was dropped and I was really just curious if > there is any fundamental reason why the graph layout views can't be > integrated.
Jeff would probably add more to it but in my experience we had other issues and not just integration with ParaView. > > Experience tells me that doing parallel rendering with a lot of mixed volumes > and transparent objects is nasty and doesn't work well. Since I know next to > nothing about custom 'info view' rendering algorithms (in parallel), then I > wondered if these were too hard to integrate etc etc (or perhaps if they were > like the streaming view and needed a lot of custom info keys etc.) > > If a replacement for Overview is on the cards, then please keep the list > informed if/when anything becomes available Absolutely. > > thanks > > JB > > > -- > John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @ cscs.ch > http://www.cscs.ch/ > CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.07 > Via Cantonale, 6928 Manno, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82 > > > -- | Aashish Chaudhary | R&D Engineer | Kitware Inc. | www.kitware.com _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
