Kitware has just announced that ParaView 3.8 is available to the masses, with an impressive collection of new features mostly garnered directly from their last VisWeek2009 Presentation. In addition to officially bringing integration with the ‘Manta’ CPU ray-tracer (in source-form only, not in the compiled binaries), they’ve added interesting GPU-acceleration features like this:
A couple of GPU-based rendering/visualization techniques have been incorporated along with GPU-based volume rendering support for 3D image volumes, which is accessible through the “Volume Mapper” option on the Display tab. Support for Line Integral Convolution (LIC) is available as a plugin; this support can be used for visualizing vector fields over arbitrary surfaces.
In addition, this version introduces support for NetCDF with CF conventions, and a substantially revised Cosmo plugin that adds in data parallelism. CAVE rendering has returned (if you didn’t know, it hasn’t been in any of the 3.0 releases), and the ‘Adaptive Processing’ version of ParaView (mentioned in the VisWeek talk) is now available (in source-format only) allowing a new way to work with datasets too large to fit in RAM.
There are many more new features, so go ahead and download it and check it out!
via Kitware – News.
All I see is ParaView 3.6.2 for the pre-built binaries at the download link.