[Paraview] Transparent Surfaces Mottled

[Berk Geveci]

This is due to the fact that VTK did not render transparent geometry
properly. We are working on fixing this. The solution we are
implementing will require certain OpenGL extension and might not work
on older graphics cards. I'll keep the list up to date.

-berk

On 11/22/06, Milan Frank <milan.frank at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am experiencing the same problem.
>
> 1) Todays CVS ParaView via Python interface.
> 2) ParaView 2.9.5
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> on Windows XP
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> Milan
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> 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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