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    • 9.6
      • Arrays have been added and deprecated
      • Add JavaScript wrappers with Emscripten
      • Add missing selection mode behavior in parallel coordinates chart
      • Add numpy support for composite arrays
      • Add support for ONNX runtime
      • Adding stream support to various readers
      • New USD exporter added
      • Add an abstract vtkCartesianGrid
      • Querying and resetting arrays to process
      • Specify array components to process
      • Modified vtkDataArray::CopyComponents signature
      • Fixed compile errors for IsHipDevicePointer
      • Performance: Faster observer operations in vtkObject.
      • Refactor of the AMR data model
      • Add Support for AMR of vtkRectilinearGrid
      • Changes
      • Statistics algorithms refactored
      • vtkAbstractArray: Replace most of GetVoidPointer instances
      • Replace unsafe c from/to string functions
      • Introduce the implicit vtkStridedArray: a strided view on a buffer
      • vtkCellArray: Support offsets/connectivity as vtkDataArray including vtkAffineArray for Offsets
    • 9.5
      • Introduce vtkExplodeDataSet filter
      • Add option to independently set thickness of cell edges and lines
      • Add getter and setter functions for the text on the buttons of vtkCameraOrientationRepresentation
      • Add new setting to specify 2D point shape in vtkProperty
      • Add Prolab Transfer function interpolation support
      • vtkConduitSource: Add state/metadata/vtk_fields node
      • Added new class to manually create a Cocoa NSAutoreleasePool
      • Add SurfaceProbeVolumeMapper
      • vtkAxisActor and vtkPolarAxesActor breaking changes
      • Remove usage of the nlohmannjson library from public facing API
      • vtkDelimitedTextReader improvements
      • EnsightCombinedReader: Performance improvements pass
      • Fix issue with Fides not initializing HIP before using it
      • Remove error for missing Fides timestep
      • Fix vtkCompositePolyDataMapper opacity override
      • vtkDIYGhostUtilities: Ensure arrays are enqueued and dequeued properly
      • Polygon centroid computation fixed
      • vtkPolyhedron: Implement GetCentroid and use it in GetParametricCenter
      • Python VTK data model
      • Add zone section selection to FLUENT Reader
      • Introduce New vtkFrustum Implicit Function and Widget
      • GLTF document loader selectively toggle model data
      • HTG Surface Representation improvements
      • Improve IBO construction performances in vtkOpenGLIndexBufferObject
      • vtkOpenFOAMReader: Multithreaded Reading of case files
      • OpenFOAM reader: allow _0 files
      • Fix lighting calculations for PBR interpolation
      • Multi-touch gestures in QtQuick/QML
      • vtkGenerateRegionIds
      • Relative Mode for vtkTemporalArrayOperatorFilter
      • Transition from VTKm to Viskores
      • Add UseOIT flag to vtkRenderer
      • Support for Blueprint implicit topology using point set
      • Implicit Widget Representations Improvements
    • 9.4
      • ABI Mangling extension for C/C++ ABI in VTK
      • New vtkBTSReader for Engys’ BTS (Binary Triangulated Surface) files
      • New vtkERFReader for ERF HDF5 File Format
      • New vtkFDSReader for Fire Dynamics Simulator output
      • Introduce vtkForEach filter
      • Introduce vtkForceStaticMesh filter
      • New flag vtkRenderWindowInteractor::InteractorManagesTheEventLoop for event loop
      • Disable rendering of interior faces that are between cells of different order
      • vtkHyperTreeGridThreshold now supports multiple strategies for representing its output in memory
      • ANARI Rendering Module
      • Add vtkAppendPartitionedDataSetCollection
      • Add VTK::catalyst module
      • Add the vtkCriticalTime filter
      • FLUENT Reader handles zones
      • Add Graphics Backend Preference Option For WebGPU Render Window
      • Add spatio-temporal harmonics filter/source
      • Add SMP support to more transform classes
      • Add new polyline decimation strategies
      • Support OpenGL tessellation shaders
      • Accept keyword arguments in constructor for python wrapped VTK classes
      • Introduce vtkDataObjectMeshCache
      • vtkImageData/vtkRectilinearGrid/vtkStructuredGrid: Improve performance using structured Points, Cells, CellTypes
      • Add support for arbitrary polyhedra to Xdmf2.
      • Add vtkBatch/vtkBatches and improve vtkTablaBasedClipDataSet’s performance
      • Support writing VTKHDF files
      • New vtkImplicitArrays!
      • ADIOS2 VTX reader changes
      • Add Alembic scene exporter
      • New vtkAnnulus Implicit Function and Widget
      • Integer API for vtkDataArray
      • New renderer for shader prototyping
      • Add support for AMReX derived overlapping AMR datasets in situ with Catalyst 2
      • Cell Grid Data-object Improvements
      • Fix cell-grid initialization
      • Fixed Cocoa incorrect KeySym
      • Fix issues with VTK / VTK-m array conversion
      • Delimited Text Reader Performances
      • SDL2 usage is now disabled by default
      • Rewrite reader for EnSight Gold files
      • Golden Ball Source
      • Fix backface color in glyph 3D mapper
      • Fix deserialization bug in vtkCollection
      • Fix bug with removing and adding a new vtkOrientationMarkerWidget
      • Fix scaling error in vtkWindowedSincPolyDataFilter
      • Fix X error about maximum clients reached
      • Support collaboration among CAVEs
      • Image testing framework in vtkTesting has a new opt-in backend
      • vtkCesium3DTilesReader improvements
      • vtkLegendScaleActor improvements
      • Some function-like macros now require trailing semi-colons
      • Multi-touch gestures in VTK
      • Added new Python API for connecting pipelines
      • Added a new information key for in situ use
      • C++ char parameters only take Python chars
      • Add Hint to Improve Python Concurrency
      • Numpy integration improvements
      • vtkCell Triangulate function refactoring
      • Refactor the vtkRedistributeDataSetFilter for more modularity
      • Infinite floor plane with vtkSkybox
      • Improve speed of vtkUnstructuredGridGeometryFilter for higher order cells
      • vtkPolyDataNormals: Split into separate classes
      • String tokenization
      • OpenXR Controller Model Rendering
      • Add support for fallback to EGL or OSMesa in Linux and Windows at runtime
      • Virtual/Mixed Reality rendering improvements
      • Improvements related to vtk Polyhedral cell storage
      • vtkPolygon: EarCutTriangulation function change.
      • WebGPU Compute API - Hierarchical two-pass occlusion culling
    • 9.3
    • 9.2
    • 9.1
    • 9.0
    • 8.2
    • 8.1
    • 8.0
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.10
    • 5.8
    • 5.6
    • 5.4
    • 5.2
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Contents

  • Parallel Processing with VTK’s SMP Framework
  • vtkArrayDispatch and Related Tools
  • Data Assembly
  • VTK Legacy Reader/Writer Information Format
  • VTK XML Reader/Writer Information Format
  • Field Data as Time Meta-Data in VTK XML File Formats
  • MomentInvariants Architecture
  • VTK WASM regression test suite architecture
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