# better resolution
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/better-resolution/2197
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/better-resolution/2197 "2019-07-11T12:15:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Misha](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Misha)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/better-resolution/2197/1 "2019-07-11T12:15:30Z")
Hi,
How can I improve the resolution of the rendered view?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/better-resolution/2197/2 "2019-07-11T12:16:58Z")
Can you please improve your question and give some information about your data ?
This looks like we are not seeing pixels but cells on your data.
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### Author:  [@Misha](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Misha)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/better-resolution/2197/3 "2019-07-11T12:40:35Z")
The data is in spherical coordinates. Each pixel in the picture represents a grid point. The question is how to make the picture more smooth (the smooth filter didn’t work).
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/better-resolution/2197/4 "2019-07-11T12:58:02Z")
As @mwestphal suggested, it looks like you are rendering cell data. ParaView renders cell data as a uniform color across the whole cell (which is generally the most honest representation of the data). If you want to interpolate the data to get a smooth field, try using the `Cell Data To Point Data` filter.
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### Author:  [@Misha](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Misha)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/better-resolution/2197/5 "2019-07-11T13:07:01Z")
I tried using the “VTKm cell data to point data” filter, but it made no difference.
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### Author:  [@Kenneth\_Moreland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Kenneth_Moreland)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/better-resolution/2197/6 "2019-07-11T13:54:42Z")
I think it might help if you could post some example data. I cannot think of another reason why you would be seeing patches of uniform color (unless your data had patches of points with the same scalar value).
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### Author:  [@Misha](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Misha)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/better-resolution/2197/7 "2019-07-11T15:07:04Z")
The reason was that I used the wrong filter. I used “VTKm cell data to point data” when I should have used “Cell Data To Point Data”. When I used the right filter, it fixed the resolution.
Thank you Kenneth and Mathieu 🙂