[Paraview] polygon offset again

[Dominik Szczerba]

> Shoving in glpolygon offset is one of those 'features' that may shoot
> you in the foot 6 ways from Sunday. ParaView does lots of complicated
> stuff (tiled display, image compositing, volume rendering, probing,
> etc...). Adding in an offset is one of those things which would have to
> be AOK'd by the principal developers and would probably involve some
> discussion first. :)

I see, so it's not simply forgotten but not easy to add. What about a 
switch for users (like me) that run PV in a simple configuration to just 
inspect small to medium-sized simulation results?

> 
> I know this is probably unsatisfying but why not just set your line
> width to 2? It works great. :)

Polygon offset is still much better, esp. at close ups.

Thanks,
Dominik

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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org 
>> [mailto:paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Dominik Szczerba
>> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 1:48 PM
>> To: paraview at paraview.org
>> Subject: [Paraview] polygon offset again
>>
>> I submitted it once as a minor bug but havent seen it 
>> resolved for quite some tome now. I can actually do it myself 
>> for my own needs, but dont know how to do it right: where to 
>> put the following line in the source code to get e.g. edges 
>> displayed right in a tet mesh?
>>
>> #ifdef GL_VERSION_1_1
>>    glEnable(GL_POLYGON_OFFSET_FILL);
>>    glPolygonOffset (1., 1.);
>> #endif
>>
>> of the VTK's way:
>>
>> SetResolveCoincidentTopologyToPolygonOffset()
>>
>> It is apparently missing in my cvs version. Could someone 
>> quickly tell me where to add this to the source code?
>>
>> thanks
>> Dominik
>>
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>> Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
>> http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi
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Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi