[Paraview] Rendering in Paraview

[Cory Quammen]

Thomas,

This looks like a classic case of z-fighting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-fighting

One way to remedy this is to turn off the display of one of the surfaces.

Cory

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Fastl, Thomas <thomas.fastl at kcl.ac.uk>
wrote:

>  Hello Community,
>
>
>  I have a question concerning rendering in Paraview (Version 4.2.0). I
> have two .vtk files: i) an ellipsoidal volume geometry of hexahedral cells (cell
> type = 12) and ii) the internal surface of the ellipsoidal geometry
> represented using quadrilateral cells (cell type = 9). The first one is
> colored grey in the attached image, while the latter one is displayed in
> blue. Opening both of them at the same time leads to a quite confusing
> representation, which I don't really understand.
>
>
>  In the image attached the quadrilateral surface was opened first
> followed by the hexahedral volume. So I can understand why Paraview renders
> the left part in the color of the volume, but I do not get why it splits
> the rendering and is checkered on the right side? Is this an intended
> behavior or might I have made a mistake? I checked the coordinates of the
> points in both files and they are identical. Thanks!
>
>
>  Best, Thomas Fastl
>
>
>
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Cory Quammen
R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.
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