Alex Kaszynski

Times appear to be recorded in local timezone

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When changing timezones the results from `timetrace list records today` do not change. Times should be recorded in UTC and displayed relative to the current timezone.

Use Mamba to speed up the conda build

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Conda builds take forever to create the environment. This PR proposes we speed that up by using the mamba solver. After speaking with a few of the guys from anaconda,...

Add composite dataset mapper

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Add a composite dataset mapper to `pyvista.Plotter` and resolve #3095. This vastly improves the performance when adding composite (`pyvista.MultiBlock`) datasets to `pyvista.Plotter`, and is absolutely critical for multi-component datasets exceeding...

Improve pass rendering

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Improve the pass rendering pipeline through the creation of a new class `RenderPasses`. Resolves #3096. The biggest limitation of our current pass rendering is you can only enable one. This...

handle verts in pythreejs

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Address https://github.com/pyvista/pyvista/discussions/2747#discussion-4121408 by handling vertices in `pyvista.PolyData` and `pyvista.PointSet` when using `jupyter_backend='pythreejs'`. This issue was brought up in #3087. 

Flaky test tracker

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This issue simply tracks flaky tests. If we see repeated failures here we can potentially skip by OS. #### Windows 3.10 segfaulted on `test_clip_by_scalars_filter` ``` tests/test_filters.py::test_clip_by_scalars_filter[True-True] ... File "D:\a\pyvista\pyvista\pyvista\core\filters\__init__.py", line...

Add create examples documentation.

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> pyvista.Plotter object persists across multiple code blocks. You can only use it within one code block. I ran into the issue before and was puzzled for several days smile...

`pyvista.Plotter` is effectively a corollary of `vtkRenderWindow` with lots of bells and whistles. It would be better to separate out the real `vtkRenderWindow` logic into its own class and then...

Meta Issue: Improve picking

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Improve picking by addressing the following: - [ ] Point picking uses `vtkPicker` and we should instead use [vtkHardwareSelector](https://vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkHardwareSelector.html). - [ ] Enable selection picking for blocks (requires #2941) -...

In https://github.com/pyvista/pyvista/discussions/2405, active scalars are changed when using `enable_cell_picking`.