[Paraview] [Paraview-developers] ParaView 5.2 Release Candidate 1 available for download

[Gena Bug]

Thank you for the clarification, David.

On 13.10.2016 20:20, David Lonie wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Gena Bug via ParaView <
> paraview at paraview.org> wrote:
>
>> On 11.10.2016 18:15, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> Among several new features, this release includes anti-aliasing
>>> support [1]. Currently, it's off by default. I'd encourage all testers
>>> and early adopters to turn it on and report any issues you notice. If
>>> we don't hear of any major obstacles, we would anti-aliasing on my
>>> default in the final release (or subsequent RCs)
>>>
>> I attached two screenshots of a simple 2d cartesian mesh, one with
>> anti-aliasing enabled and one without it. For me the one with AA looks
>> strange -- cells look like circles not squares. Is it expected behavior?
>>
>
> Unfortunately it is. FXAA is an approximate anti-aliasing solution that's
> applied as a post-processing pass over the rendered scene -- since ParaView
> often does distributed rendering, this is really the only way we can
> reliably get anti-aliasing without introducing major artifacts at processor
> boundaries.
>
> Because it's only working with the rendered pixel data (instead of actual
> geometric primitives), there are some occasional issues like this one. In
> this case, it's detecting the intersections as aliased edges and attempting
> to smooth them out, fattening the line near the intersection as a result.
>
> HTH,
> Dave
>