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Introduction
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[ParaView][] is an open-source, multi-platform data analysis and
visualization application based on
The first public release was announced in October 2002. Since then, the project
has grown through collaborative efforts between [Kitware Inc.][Kitware],
[Sandia National Laboratories][Sandia],
[Los Alamos National Laboratory][LANL],
[Army Research Laboratory][ARL], and various other
government and commercial institutions, and academic partners.
[ParaView]: http://www.paraview.org
[VTK]: http://www.vtk.org
[Kitware]: http://www.kitware.com
[Sandia]: http://www.sandia.gov/
[LANL]: http://www.lanl.gov/
[ARL]: http://www.arl.army.mil/
Learning Resources
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* General information is available at the [ParaView Homepage][].
* [The ParaView Guide][Guide] can be downloaded (as PDF) or purchased (in print).
* Community discussion takes place on the [ParaView Mailing Lists][].
* Commercial [support][Kitware Support] and [training][Kitware Training]
are available from [Kitware][].
* Additional documentation, including Doxygen-generated nightly
reference documentation, is available [online][Documentation].
[ParaView Homepage]: http://www.paraview.org
[Documentation]: http://www.paraview.org/documentation/
[ParaView Mailing Lists]: http://www.paraview.org/mailing-lists/
[Kitware]: http://www.kitware.com/
[Kitware Support]: http://www.kitware.com/products/support.html
[Kitware Training]: http://www.kitware.com/products/protraining.php
Reporting Bugs
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If you have found a bug:
1. If you have a source-code fix, please read the [CONTRIBUTING.md][] document.
2. Otherwise, please join the one of the [ParaView Mailing Lists][] and ask
about the expected and observed behaviors to determine if it is
really a bug.
3. Finally, if the issue is not resolved by the above steps, open
an entry in the [ParaView Issue Tracker][].
[ParaView Issue Tracker]: https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues
Contributing
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See [CONTRIBUTING.md][] for instructions to contribute.
For Github users
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[Github][] is a mirror of the [official repository][repo]. We do not actively monitor issues or
pull requests on Github. Please use the [official repository][repo] to report issues or contribute
fixes.
[Github]: https://github.com/Kitware/ParaView
[repo]: https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview
[CONTRIBUTING.md]: CONTRIBUTING.md
License
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ParaView is distributed under the OSI-approved BSD 3-clause License.
See [Copyright.txt][] for details. For additional licenses, refer to
[ParaView Licenses][].
[Copyright.txt]: Copyright.txt
[ParaView Licenses]: http://www.paraview.org/paraview-license/