[Paraview] Viewing distortions

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

This is a known issue. This happens due to the coincident topology
resolution techniques employed to rendering surfaces with overlapping
lines correctly. We are working on a fix for this issue.

Utkarsh

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Benjamin Schindler
<bschindler at inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a very odd problem with paraview 3.6.1 (debug build directly from
> sources):
>
> When displaying different objects, they are not properly laid into
> space, probably due to projection problems. One way to very easily see
> this is to display a line and then use the spreadsheet view to select a
> vertex of that line. The purple dot which highlights the point is then
> not on the vertex itself, but at some offset which varies depending on
> the viewing direction. I took a screenshot (and taking the screenshot
> itself changed the position of the highlight it seemed) to illustrate
> the problem.
>
> This is extremely annoying as also datasets/lines are not properly laid
> into space so there is no way to tell how the two objects relate to each
> other. The same problem happens when selecting objects (see second
> screenshot)
>
> Is this a known issue/is there already a fix for this?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Benjamin
>
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