[vtkusers] question for opengl experts

[Jeff Lee]

Leila,
It happens in vtkOpenGLTexture.cxx.  When the texture loads, it checks 
the dimensions and resamples if either dimension is not a power of 2.  
It also resamples if either dimension is greater than OpenGL can handle.
-Jeff

Leila Baghdadi wrote:

>Hi everyone
>
>I was reading the vtk user's guide, using texture page 54, and there is a 
>note there talking about graphics hardware/libraries only accept powers 
>of two in dimension,
>does it mean 2,4,8...
>or how does that work and where is the code that deals with this to 
>generate a power of two dimension.
>
>
>Thanks
>
>
>Leila
>
>  
>

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