[Paraview] Compositing

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Unless you compiled with Mesa and are doing offscreen rendering, then
yes you can expect that.

-Ken 

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> From: paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org 
> [mailto:paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On 
> Behalf Of Randy Hudson
> Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 2:27 PM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Cc: ANL Paraview List
> Subject: [Paraview] Compositing
> 
> 
> 
> On one visualization cluster I use, I tested both pvserver 
> 2.0.0 and the 07/11 development release in parallel, running 
> the client on my laptop.  I used both processors of each of 
> several 2-processor nodes on the cluster -- nodes that have 1 
> graphics card apiece.
> 
> When I used the "Composite" slider and check box in 
> paraview's "3D View Properties" panel to force compositing 
> above 0.0 MB, the image in the graphics panel looked as 
> though either the frame buffers were not being cleared, or as 
> if both processes on a node were rendering over one another's images.
> 
> Yet, when I tried the same thing with pvserver 2.0.0, with 
> the same settings, with another cluster that has 1 graphics 
> card per 2-processor node, the image looked fine.  (On this 
> cluster, I could not test the 07/11 release.)
> 
> Should I, in general, expect the munging of the image when 
> running under these conditions?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Randy.
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