[Paraview] Antialiasing?

[Marc Baaden]

Hello,

thanks for your reply and sorry for the lag in responding.
I have made a snapshot for illustration:
http://www.shaman.ibpc.fr/pv_antialias.png

This is a simple dataset with a tubefilter applied. I use
Paraview 3.0.1 for Mac OSX (no parallel rendering) with a
Mac Pro and a Quadro FX 4500 graphics card. So I think the
hardware should support antialiasing.

I tried other background colors (gray, black) and indeed there
is no antialiasing either, although the jagged edges are a little
less obvious.

So I wonder what's the issue here? Maybe antialiasing could be turned
off on my installation for some reason?

Thanks in advance,
Marc

NB: Antialiasing is also missing with the previous 2.6 version of
    Paraview. So it doesn't seem specific to the 3.x series.

>>> "Moreland, Kenneth" said:
 >> ParaView defaults to 8x supersampled antialiasing if your hardware
 >> supports it (and if you not in parallel rendering mode).  The background
 >> color will have no effect on your antialiasing.
 >> 
 >> If you are sure aliasing is the problem, you could always generate a
 >> really large image and then perform smooth downsampling (for example,
 >> using IrfanView).  You can hackishly use the "Save Animation" option to
 >> save an image larger than what you can display on screen.
 >> 
 >> Without seeing an image, I cannot think of anything else to suggest.
 >> 
 >> -Ken
 >> 
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