February 3, 2020 Software Open Access

pyvista/pyvista: Bug fixes, improvements, and new widgets/filters

Bane Sullivan; Alex Kaszynski; Guillaume Favelier; Henrik Åhl; Simon Frei; math-artist; Tetsuo Koyama; Leonardo Uieda; Keurfon Luu; Eric Larson; Dieter Werthmüller; michi1510; Nicolas Cedilnik; Mikolaj Magnuski; MatthewFlamm; Marco Musy; Jiawei Zhuang; JasonTLin; Guillaume Jacquenot; Florian Wagner; Denis Sergeev; Ashley Scillitoe

New Contributors

Be sure to welcome and thank these folks for their contributions!

• tkoyama010
• MatthewFlamm
• math-artist

• Add file drag 'n' drop to BackgroundPlotter (see #567)
• New extract_subset filter for UniformGrid (see #569)
• New GPU details in Report (see #512)
• New text slider widget (see #518)
• Enable depth peeling by default (see #529)
• New sample over line filter (see #525)
• New checkbox button widget (see #528)
• Refactor axes widget to be on any renderer in subplots (see #536 and #565)
• Refactor BasePlotter's wrapping of Renderer to improve interface and docs (see #552)
• Improve meshio support and enable meshio objects to be passed to PyVista (see #559 and #568)
• Improve repr for camera position (see #537)
• Updates to visible cell selecting (see #571)
• Add original point IDs to geodesic filter (see #544)

• Fix slider widget coordinate parameters (see #511)
• Fix mesh name issues that prevented plotting in for-loops (see #521)
• Fix issues when instantiating RectilinearGrid (see #530)
• Fix brown plotting color (see #538)
• Fixes to CylinderStructured (see #561 and #577)
• Fix issues managing active scalars in widget plotting routines (see #533)
• Fix issues with getitem on MultiBlock datasets (see #563)
• Fix issue when volume rendering 3D NumPy arrays (see #575)
• Fix combine filter for MultiBlock datasets (see #535)
• Fixes to pyvista.voxelize (see #546)
• Update copy_meta_from to deep copy textures (see #564)