VTK 6.3 Upgrade

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Branch name is VTK-6.3-port, user bonnell.

I will document changes needed for compilation as I find them. I will not attempt to use the new OpenGL2 backend until other issues are resolved.

I am starting from a build of VTK-6.3.rc1, using the same build parameters we use for 6.1.

VTK Build changes

Are any of the current patches in bv_vtk.sh still needed?
Remove vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL module from bv_vtk.sh, it no longer exists. DONE

vtkRenderingFreeTypeOpenGL module no longer exists, so CMakeLists.txt files that add this link target need to be updated. DONE
vtkStructuredVisibilityConstraint removed (vtkVisItStructuredGrid needs to be compared to the new vtkStructuredGrid for necessary modifications). DONE
Remove references to vtkStreamingDemandDrivenPipeline::MAXIMUM_NUMBER_OF_PIECES() (vtkVisItProbeFilter, visit_vtkPOpenFoamReader) DONE
Temporarily disable PLOT3D database reader, as vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader upon which it depends was moved into IO/Parallel module, which we currently don't build. DONE

vtkVisItProbeFilter uses legacy method names (SetSource instead of SetSourceData, does not have SetSourceConnection)
vtk changed their header file #defines to remove leading underscores, should we change our vtk filter to do the same?
This may not apply to 6.3 but when I built against 6.2, Pseudocolor plots looked wrong when color texturing was used. Maybe we can get rid of our own color texturing if VTK supports it now.

the PLOT3D reader currently depends on vtkMultiBlockPLOT3DReader, which now resides in vtk's IO/Parallel module. Not sure we want to build that module, so the PLOT3D reader needs to be re-thought.
Point-centered vars not rendered correctly in color-using-texture mode.