VTK8 - Label for 3d label plot sometimes shows labels interior to the mesh

[aowen87]

Label for 3d label plot sometimes shows labels interior to the mesh. http://portal.nersc.gov/project/visit/tests/20180417-22:00/surface_trunk_serial/label_8_03.html

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Ticket number: 3116
Status: Pending
Project: VisIt
Tracker: Bug
Priority: Normal
Subject: VTK8 - Label for 3d label plot sometimes shows labels interior to the mesh
Assigned to: Eric Brugger
Category: -
Target version: 3.0
Author: Eric Brugger
Start: 05/17/2018
Due date:
% Done: 0%
Estimated time:
Created: 05/17/2018 11:34 am
Updated: 05/17/2018 12:16 pm
Likelihood: 3 - Occasional
Severity: 4 - Crash / Wrong Results
Found in version: trunk
Impact:
Expected Use:
OS: All
Support Group: Any
Description:
Label for 3d label plot sometimes shows labels interior to the mesh. http://portal.nersc.gov/project/visit/tests/20180417-22:00/surface_trunk_serial/label_8_03.html

Comments:

[brugger1]

This is definitely being handled better in 2.13.3. Here are the images from 2.13.3 and 3.0.0b. The top is 3.0.0b. The extra labels are along the axis of the globe, they are coming from faces interior to the globe along the axis of rotation.

The script to replicate the images is:

label_test.py.txt