[Paraview] to be sure about used hardware ...

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

That's weird. What version of ParaView are you using on your Debian 8?

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Ufuk Utku Turuncoglu (BE)
<u.utku.turuncoglu at be.itu.edu.tr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I checked "Volume Rendering Mode" but i could not see it in my case. It is
> exist in my local laptop (Mac OS) but it is not in ParaView installed under
> Debian 8.0. I think that after selecting representation type to Volume, it
> must show up in the Properties menu. Right?
>
> --ufuk
>
>
> On 11/05/15 17:47, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>
>>> Is out of box ParaView binary
>>> could use full capability of hardware or not?
>>
>> ParaVIew binaries don't ship with any OpenGL implementation. It uses
>> whatever OpenGL drivers setup on the machine it's being run. So long
>> as your environment is setup properly, ParaView will indeed use the
>> hardware available. However, not all rendering techniques in ParaView
>> will use the graphics card  -- as Armin alluded to. Your dataset seems
>> like small enough that volume rendering should be pretty
>> instantaneous. What is the "Volume Rendering Mode" on the Properties
>> panel set to? It should be "Smart" by default -- that will ensure that
>> the graphics card is used, if possible.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>
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