<div dir="ltr"><div>Ryan,</div><div><br></div>I thought of another thing to try with your original data: under Backface Styling, change the Backface Representation to "Cull Backface". This should remove the edges from the backside of your data set.<div><br></div><div>If that doesn't work, can you share a data set?</div><div><br></div><div>To turn off lighting and set the color to white, I did what you did, but set</div><div><br></div><div>r.Ambient = 1.0</div><div>r.AmbientColor = [1, 1, 1]</div><div><br></div><div>That made the surface white without lighting.</div><div><br></div><div>Cory</div><div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Ryan Crocker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rcrocker@uvm.edu" target="_blank">rcrocker@uvm.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">When i zoom in they look the same, or it switches to other lines. I thought it might have something to do with the fact that my 2D simulation actually dose have a thickness in the z-direction. So i cut a slice and now the issue with the lines is gone but it look alike this with the left to right cross in each cell (below script). Is there a way to turn off the lighting so that i just get a flat, white surface. I wrote a python script for it but it does not seem to work. I just get a black solid color. <div><br></div><div><pre><i>RenderView1 = GetRenderView()
</i><i>RenderView1.LightSwitch = 0
</i><i>RenderView1.UseLight = 0
</i><i>r = GetDisplayProperties()</i></pre><pre><i>r.Ambient = 0.0</i></pre><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Jul 1, 2015, at 11:52 AM, Cory Quammen <<a href="mailto:cory.quammen@kitware.com" target="_blank">cory.quammen@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><span class=""><br></span><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><div dir="ltr">Hi Ryan,<div><br></div><div>When you zoom in on your grid in the black and white image, do the thick lines change to two thinner lines? What I think is going on is that your grid lines are so close together that some of them have a zero-pixel gap between them, making them appear thicker.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Cory</div></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Ryan Crocker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rcrocker@uvm.edu" target="_blank">rcrocker@uvm.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="">Hi Cory, <div><br></div><div>So this is what my grid looks like rendered in wireframe, notice the weird line thicknesses. </div></span><div><span><grid_plot.jpg></span></div><span class=""><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>and here it is rendered in surface with edges, where it look a normal grid.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span><div><span><surfgrid_plot.jpg></span><span class=""><div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 29, 2015, at 9:20 PM, Cory Quammen <<a href="mailto:cory.quammen@kitware.com" target="_blank">cory.quammen@kitware.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Ryan,<div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I thought this would be straight forward but it does not seem to be. I want to basically just get a picture of my grid with no background and a few contours which are lines. To do this i’m trying to set the the color of the default “Solid Color” to white. No matter what i do it’s always grey or off white in the view port and when i print it. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>When you set your object to white, it is still being rendered with lighting, hence the gray surface.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"> I’ve come close by using wireframe but that makes my grid look weird (some lines are wider than others for some reason). Is there a way to do this with surface with edges? That representation of my grid actually looks like a grid.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In Wireframe representation, you all the lines should be the same width. If that's not the case, it is a bug. Can you post a picture showing the different line widths?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Cory</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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