[Paraview] 3D contour smoothness

[Cory Quammen]

Philipp,

In the contour filter, is the option "Compute Normals" checked in 4.0 RC1?

Also, are the contour values the same between the two versions?

Thanks,
Cory

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Philipp E <pspeachum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> after extensive search I was desperate enough to post on this list:
>
> It appears that the surface smoothing algorithm of the contour filter
> does not work as "aggressive" as in older version (3.14.1 was the last
> one we found to do so). As an example I prepared this two screenshots,
> VTK data are scalars on a structured grid (200x100x100), legacy format.
> (An additional call of the "smooth" filter does not help.)
>
> 3.14.1
> http://s7.directupload.net/images/140919/euadfvko.png
> 4.0.RC1
> http://s14.directupload.net/images/140919/84y689mi.png
>
> Both versions are running with the shipped settings. Since the effect
> could be reproduced on several workstations, we are wondering whether
> there has been an (undocumented?) change in the filter mechanism or some
> option we/setting/data problem we are not aware of.
>
> Kind regards and thanks in advance
> Philipp Engels.
>
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