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I don’t do much volume rendering, if that’s what you mean, but it seems to work just fine.<BR>
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As far as Paraview using the hardware correctly, I have no idea. I don’t have any evidence that it isn’t. I guess if it didn’t, it might just be slow, but I don’t have a sense of how fast volume rendering should be.<BR>
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Greg<BR>
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On 4/17/08 2:33 PM, "Dan Goldstein" <dan@cora.nwra.com> wrote:<BR>
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Paraview? Does it seem to use the hardware correctly?<BR>
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Thanks<BR>
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Dan<BR>
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Weirs, V Gregory wrote:<BR>
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> I have a MacBook Pro 15”, about a year and a half old, running Tiger. No<BR>
> special drivers to install or anything like that. Output to second<BR>
> display works out of the box, whether a projector or monitor. It’s fabulous.<BR>
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> The Mac build of Paraview works fine, I sometimes build from the cvs<BR>
> trunk and don’t have any Mac-specific problems. The Mac install is<BR>
> problematic so I just run out of the build directory; but I know a lot<BR>
> of effort is going into that and I expect it will all be fixed it in 3.4<BR>
> or soon after.<BR>
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> Greg<BR>
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> On 4/17/08 10:01 AM, "Dan Goldstein" <dan@cora.nwra.com> wrote:<BR>
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> Hi,<BR>
> Can I get some quick feedback on how ParaView and VTK is running<BR>
> on the MacBook Pro laptops? Is opengl hardware acceleration with the<BR>
> Nvidia GPU and current Apple drivers all working? I am getting ready to<BR>
> buy one and I just want to make sure, since one of my primary uses will<BR>
> be ParaView visualization of CFD results.<BR>
> ParaView never did correctly use the hardware in my last trusty laptop<BR>
> (Dell M50) ,although it does have a good Nvidia chip set. (Not<BR>
> complaining, I just want to make sure I get a working hardware/driver<BR>
> combo this time..)<BR>
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> Thanks for any feedback.<BR>
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> Dan Goldstein<BR>
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