[Paraview] Paraview and tiled display

[Greg Abram]

Hi, Berk -

Thanks for the prompt reply.  I'm using 3.6.

Greg

Gregory D. Abram
Texas Advanced Computing Center
JJ Pickle Research Campus - ROC 1.101 (R8700)
10100 Burnet Road
Austin, Texas 78758-4497

gda at tacc.utexas.edu
(512) 471-8196


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From: Berk Geveci [berk.geveci at kitware.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:44 PM
To: Greg Abram
Cc: paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Paraview and tiled display

Hi Greg,

I guess we need to do better testing of tiled display rendering. This
is a bug that I can reproduce in 3.7 (which version are you using?).
We will fix this asap.

-berk


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Greg Abram<gda at tacc.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> Can't believe I never tried this before - I'm trying to use PV to render to a tiled display with 2 nodes driving 2 screens each in TwinView mode, and oriented one above the other.  Initially, all is well - the target screens show the grey background with the axes centered and the screens are filled.  Just what you'd expect.  Then, as soon as I put some geometry into the display (such as the Sphere source) smaller windows appear on the tile displays, one showing the top half of the correct image and the other the bottom, but clipped to the bounding box of the data.  Like the results of the first pass of a binary swap compositing -  data from both processes shows up in each.   When these windows appear, the rest of the tile displays revert to the original desktop background.  If I add --use-offscreen-rendering to the pvservers the two smaller windows still appear, but are black.
>
> So - how do I get rid of those windows?   And is there a way to suppress rendering to the PV client?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
> Gregory D. Abram
> Texas Advanced Computing Center
> JJ Pickle Research Campus - ROC 1.101 (R8700)
> 10100 Burnet Road
> Austin, Texas 78758-4497
>
> gda at tacc.utexas.edu
> (512) 471-8196
>
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