[x3d-public] MacOS: El Capitan breaks X3DOM volume rendering

John Carlson yottzumm at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 13:22:01 PDT 2016


Didn't Metal come out with El Capitan?

On Aug 18, 2016 4:19 PM, "Vincent Marchetti" <vmarchetti at ameritech.net>
wrote:

> I just discovered that volume rendering in X3DOM seems to break in the
> latest Mac system release:  "El Capitan"
>
> Looking at the WebGL-based adaptation of X3D volume rendering, as
> demonstrated on the Vicomtech demo pages http://demos.vicomtech.org ; in
> particular the http://demos.vicomtech.org/medx3dom2015/
> volrenOpacityTest_body.xhtml example:
>
> Here is that page as rendered in Safari, running under "El Capitan" a.k.a
> Mac OS 10.11.6
>
>
> (Note: Not obvious in this screenshot, but one "slice" of the volume image
> faintly appears in the El Capitan rendering)
>
>
>
> while in Safari, under "Yosemite" a.k.a. Mac OS 10.10.5
>
>
>
>
> These screenshots were made with Safari browser, but Chrome and Firefox
> show same results in the two MacOS releases.
>
> A request to members of the mailing lists:
> If you are a Mac user and have upgraded to El Capitan, can you confirm
> these results (or even better, let me know that this was caused by a simple
> screwup or misconfiguration on my part!)
>
> If you are familiar with how the volume rendering works in X3DOM, where
> would I even start in understanding how this can depend on OS release?
>
> Thanks
>
> Vincent Marchetti
> vmarchetti at ameritech.net
>
>
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