[Paraview] Transparent Surfaces Mottled

Milan Frank milan.frank at gmail.com
Wed Nov 22 10:54:01 EST 2006


I am experiencing the same problem.

1) Todays CVS ParaView via Python interface.
2) ParaView 2.9.5

on Windows XP

Milan

On 20/11/06, Kent Eschenberg <eschenbe at psc.edu> wrote:
> It seems that there is a bug that causes transparent surfaces to have strange shading. This might be related to bug #2347 reported 10/27/2005 (it seems to still be open).
>
> When the opacity is changed from 1 the formerly smooth surface becomes mottled (see attachment opaTst1.jpg). I've checked the surface normals and they are correct. The built-in sphere source (see attachment opaTst2.jpg) shows similar problems. Both
> images were generated using ParaView's File->SaveImage and look the same as on screen.
>
> System:
> ParaView 2.4.4
> Fedora Core 5
> Pentium 4
>
> Have others seen this effect? We've seen it on several systems and it makes transparent surfaces almost useless.
>
> Kent
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>
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