This minor release of pyvista==0.29.0 includes a variety of changes and new features. The most major is improving our load-time by only loading in the VTK libraries used through lazy loading or selective imports using `vtkmodules``. It was quite an overhaul and should improve load time, reduce memory usage, and potentially the size of the frozen package.
Other new features and bug-fixes include:
New Features
- add subdivision option to extract_surface (#1174)
- Add a silhouette parameter to add_mesh (#1211)
- add new colors (#1173)
- Add pickle support to DataObject (#1143)
- Add where_is in BasePlotter (#1175)
- Create an explicit structured grid (#1133)
Documentation
- Fix and update some sphinx docs (#1149)
- 📝 Add new function to geometric.rst (#1170)
- Update what-is-a-mesh.rst (#1176)
- Fix docstring in add_point_labels (#1188)
API Changes
- Improve PolyData Import (#1213)
- Use vtkTransformFilter in DataSet.transform() (#1166)
- Improve Exodus Reader (#1191)
- Add bounds in reset_camera (#1161)
- Add option to hide plane widget vector (#1150)
- add origin kwarg to plotter.add_legend (#1153)
- Expose start_xvfb (#1151)
- Add render=True in add_point_labels (#1152)
- add transforms3d (#1142)
Bug Fixes
- Fix the "reset camera" effect when parallel projection is enabled/disabled (#1221)
- Wrap pyvista_ndarray (#1222)
- Fix vtk not defined (#1217)
- plot_over_line should fail if scalar name does not exist (#1214)
- Fix labels (#1201)
- remove faulthandler (#1187)
- Fix log scale in scalar bar (#1183)
- Fix bugs in enable_cell_picking (#1158)
- fix add_actor (#1182)
- Fix Binary Writer (#1148)
- Reimplement Light.copy to get around VTK8.1 bug (#1137)
- Update enable_cell_picking (#1157)
- Update the active scalar bar when cmap is changed (#1169)
- Fix scalar bar moving upward (#1171)
Miscellaneous/Testing
- Minor fix of plot_over_line's test #525 (#1216)
- common --> dataset (#1209)
- 🎨 Minor fix of format of the code. (#1199)
- Fix doctest failure in BasePlotter.where_is (#1192)
- Use vtkmodules (#1163)
- Move Common, DataObject to dataset.py, dataobject.py (#1160)
- Partially add type hints to /core/ (#1145)
- improve import speed (#1156)