pyvista/pyvista: Stability Improvements and Additional Qt Support
Bane Sullivan, Alex A. Kaszynski, Guillaume Favelier, Henrik Åhl, Simon Frei, Leonardo Uieda, Eric Larson, Dieter Werthmüller, michi, Nicolas Cedilnik, Mikołaj Magnuski, Marco Musy, Keurfon Luu, Jiawei Zhuang, JasonTLin, Guillaume Jacquenot, Florian Wagner, Sergeev, Denis, Ashley Scillitoe · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2019
New Contributors Be sure to welcome and thank these folks for their contributions! @keurfonluu @truenicoco @imsodin High Impact Resolved Windows crashes and disappearing plotters (see #502) Fully dropped support for Python 2.7 (see #493) Depth peeling to properly render translucent geometries (see #450) Full support for reading/writing files with meshio (see #472 and #495) Log scale color mapping (see #499) Keyword arguments are now strongly enforced across the API (see #432) the IPython tools module has been entirely removed (see #403) New Features & Improvements More camera viewing options: e.g. Plotter.view_zx Gradient background colors when plotting (see #411) Gaussian smoothing filter for pyvista.UniformGrid meshes (see #420 and #485 ) Save graphic method for SVG images (see #331) More culling options (see #292) Array name auto-completion in IPython when getting array (see #425) More keypress events in the plotters (see #434) New click position tracking in world coordinates (see #466) Enabled use of custom bounds with texture_map_to_plane (see #407) Document how to instantiate pyvista.MultiBlock objects (see #413) Control the border of the backgroundPlotter (see #416) Enable access to various contouring algorithms in the contour filter (see #421) Various widgets enhancements (see #415) and bug fixes Added support for passing a PolyData mesh as the box for the clip_box filter (see #433) PyQt improvements (see #424 and see #498) Q-key will not automatically bind to embedded Qt apps (see #508) Renderers will automatically update when embedded in Qt apps now (see #509) Colormaps can be defined as a list of string colors (see #445) Add helper method to see if PolyData mesh is made of all triangles (see #446) Clamping range added to glyph filter (see #451) Major naming consistency improvements for *_scalars and *_array (see #456) Use the camera transform matrix when getting/setting the camera position in scaled environments (see #476) More indexing options for MultiBlock objects (see #459) Enable pyvista.read to handle lists of file names and return MultiBlock object FileNotFoundError used over IOError (see #506) Resolved Bugs Fixed clim issues with Plotter.add_mesh_slice_orthogonal Fixed issue when using rng keyword with widget plotting helpers Fixed Python 3.8 issues Fixed usage of render_points_as_spheres with Plotter.add_point_labels Fixed point labeling issues appearing in front of opaque meshes (see #366) Fixed issues when importing broken builds of panel (see #440) Fixed random behavior of pyvista.CylinderStructured (see #442) Fixed issues when copying pyvista.MultiBlock datasets Fixed an issue when parsing VTK errors as Python warnings Fixed major issues with volume rendering (see #464 and #497) Fixed memory leak from plotter not being cleared (#484) Fixed issue when saving PLY meshes (see #489)