[Paraview] stitching artifacts in screenshots

[Scott, W Alan]

I believe that ParaView uses the graphics card, and the graphics memory for it's off screen rendering.  I also assume this is done in the back buffer of the graphics card's double buffer system, but I am not sure.

Alan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dominik Szczerba [mailto:dominik at itis.ethz.ch] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:55 AM
> To: Scott, W Alan
> Cc: ParaView list
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] stitching artifacts in screenshots
> 
> I also tested on another PC, with an NVIDIA gfx card and it 
> is OK there.
> So the culprit might be my integrated intel gfx chip in my 
> thinkpad x60. 
> Still, I expected off-screen rendering to be independent from 
> hardware, not so?
> 	Dominik
> 
> Scott, W Alan wrote:
> > Looks OK to me.  I tested at 1920x1024, on screen and off 
> screen, and 7680x4096, off screen.  I was writing png's, 
> using 3.6.1.  No stitching, no error message, no disabled off 
> screen rendering.
> > 
> > 
> > Alan
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org
> >> [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On Behalf Of 
> Dominik Szczerba
> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:16 AM
> >> To: ParaView list
> >> Subject: [Paraview] stitching artifacts in screenshots
> >>
> >> Hi, I ma getting stitching artifacts in screenshots larger than my 
> >> display (both 3.6.1 and recent CVS on linux). I have 'use 
> offscreen' 
> >> enabled in the settings, but get an error message it is being 
> >> disabled because of a detected empty screen.
> >> Does anyone else have similar problems?
> >>
> >> 	Dominik
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