If I'm not mistaken it looks like anti-aliasing is not used in the mac build of chimera... is there a way to enable this? I'm using a Macbook pro with the nvidia card and Mac os X. Greg
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Grigore Pintilie wrote:
If I'm not mistaken it looks like anti-aliasing is not used in the mac build of chimera... is there a way to enable this? I'm using a Macbook pro with the nvidia card and Mac os X.
Greg
The simpliest solution is to start using the Aqua version of chimera instead of the X11 version. If you prefer the X11 version, you'll need to update your X11 server to XQuartz 2.3.2 from <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/> -- should be out early next year, a release candidate is available now. Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
Thanks for responding so quickly. Actually I am using the Aqua version, sorry for not specifying... Greg On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Greg Couch <gregc@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Grigore Pintilie wrote:
If I'm not mistaken it looks like anti-aliasing is not used in the mac build of chimera... is there a way to enable this? I'm using a Macbook pro with the nvidia card and Mac os X.
Greg
The simpliest solution is to start using the Aqua version of chimera instead of the X11 version. If you prefer the X11 version, you'll need to update your X11 server to XQuartz 2.3.2 from <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/> -- should be out early next year, a release candidate is available now.
Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
I had forgotton that we turn off anti-aliasing by default on some graphics cards because it is very slow. Chimera does that for the NVidia 8600M (and Intel) graphics chips. Probably should do it for more laptop/lowend Macs. To turn it back on, use chimera's Viewing Controls / Effects tool and set multisampling to true (and Save it, so it's turned on next you start chimera). - Greg On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Grigore Pintilie wrote:
Thanks for responding so quickly. Actually I am using the Aqua version, sorry for not specifying...
Greg
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Greg Couch <gregc@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Grigore Pintilie wrote:
If I'm not mistaken it looks like anti-aliasing is not used in the mac build of chimera... is there a way to enable this? I'm using a Macbook pro with the nvidia card and Mac os X.
Greg
The simpliest solution is to start using the Aqua version of chimera instead of the X11 version. If you prefer the X11 version, you'll need to update your X11 server to XQuartz 2.3.2 from <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/> -- should be out early next year, a release candidate is available now.
Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
Great, that seems to do the trick. Thanks for the tip! Greg On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Greg Couch <gregc@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
I had forgotton that we turn off anti-aliasing by default on some graphics cards because it is very slow. Chimera does that for the NVidia 8600M (and Intel) graphics chips. Probably should do it for more laptop/lowend Macs. To turn it back on, use chimera's Viewing Controls / Effects tool and set multisampling to true (and Save it, so it's turned on next you start chimera).
- Greg
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Grigore Pintilie wrote:
Thanks for responding so quickly. Actually I am using the Aqua version, sorry for not specifying...
Greg
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Greg Couch <gregc@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Grigore Pintilie wrote:
If I'm not mistaken it looks like anti-aliasing is not used in the mac build of chimera... is there a way to enable this? I'm using a Macbook pro with the nvidia card and Mac os X.
Greg
The simpliest solution is to start using the Aqua version of chimera instead of the X11 version. If you prefer the X11 version, you'll need to update your X11 server to XQuartz 2.3.2 from <http://xquartz.macosforge.org/> -- should be out early next year, a release candidate is available now.
Greg Couch UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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