Image rendering artifacts with silhouettes and pixelSize value
Dear ChimeraX team, I am having issues when using silhouettes and saving an image while specifying the pixel size, as I get the artefacts shown in the attached image. If I don’t use silhouettes or don’t specify the pixel size things look fine. I updated to the latest daily version and uninstalled Isolde and ArtiaX, but the problem persist. I work on a MacBook Pro under Mac OS Ventura 13.5.2. Any ideas for fixes? Many thanks, Matthias [A white structure with colorful strands Description automatically generated with medium confidence]
Hi Matthias, Unfortunately one model of Mac Book Pro, MacBookPro16,2 with Intel graphics has this graphics driver bug where it draws thousands of small box shapes when silhouettes are enabled. Every other model of Mac works correctly, and this bug has never been reported on Windows or Linux. Unfortunately Apple deprecated the OpenGL graphics standard about 6 years ago when they introduced their proprietary Metal graphics. So I don't expect Apple to ever fix this. Apple Intel graphics drivers also frequently crash ChimeraX. On the good side the Apple M1/M2 graphics has been rock solid, only one or two crashes reported in 3 years. So the only solution is to use a different computer. You can save a ChimeraX session (file suffix .cxs) on your Mac and open it on another computer to save an image. Tom
On Oct 24, 2023, at 4:11 AM, Vorländer,Matthias Kopano via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
Dear ChimeraX team,
I am having issues when using silhouettes and saving an image while specifying the pixel size, as I get the artefacts shown in the attached image. If I don’t use silhouettes or don’t specify the pixel size things look fine. I updated to the latest daily version and uninstalled Isolde and ArtiaX, but the problem persist. I work on a MacBook Pro under Mac OS Ventura 13.5.2. Any ideas for fixes?
Many thanks,
Matthias
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Hi Tom, Thanks for clarifying, that's exactly my laptop. I can render on another machine in that case. Best, Matthias Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Tom Goddard <goddard@sonic.net> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 7:08:04 PM To: Vorländer,Matthias Kopano <matthias.vorlaender@imp.ac.at> Cc: ChimeraX-users@cgl.ucsf.edu <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> Subject: Re: [chimerax-users] Image rendering artifacts with silhouettes and pixelSize value Hi Matthias, Unfortunately one model of Mac Book Pro, MacBookPro16,2 with Intel graphics has this graphics driver bug where it draws thousands of small box shapes when silhouettes are enabled. Every other model of Mac works correctly, and this bug has never been reported on Windows or Linux. Unfortunately Apple deprecated the OpenGL graphics standard about 6 years ago when they introduced their proprietary Metal graphics. So I don't expect Apple to ever fix this. Apple Intel graphics drivers also frequently crash ChimeraX. On the good side the Apple M1/M2 graphics has been rock solid, only one or two crashes reported in 3 years. So the only solution is to use a different computer. You can save a ChimeraX session (file suffix .cxs) on your Mac and open it on another computer to save an image. Tom On Oct 24, 2023, at 4:11 AM, Vorländer,Matthias Kopano via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote: Dear ChimeraX team, I am having issues when using silhouettes and saving an image while specifying the pixel size, as I get the artefacts shown in the attached image. If I don’t use silhouettes or don’t specify the pixel size things look fine. I updated to the latest daily version and uninstalled Isolde and ArtiaX, but the problem persist. I work on a MacBook Pro under Mac OS Ventura 13.5.2. Any ideas for fixes? Many thanks, Matthias <image001.png> _______________________________________________ ChimeraX-users mailing list -- chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu> To unsubscribe send an email to chimerax-users-leave@cgl.ucsf.edu<mailto:chimerax-users-leave@cgl.ucsf.edu> Archives: https://mail.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/archives/list/chimerax-users@cgl.ucsf.edu/
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