# Disable camera interaction decimation effect

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/disable-camera-interaction-decimation-effect/3337
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 14, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/disable-camera-interaction-decimation-effect/3337 "2020-01-14T22:24:31Z")
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### Author: ![banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/banesullivan/32/11714_2.png) [@banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/banesullivan)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/disable-camera-interaction-decimation-effect/3337/1 "2020-01-14T22:24:31Z")

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I’m not really sure what to call this phenomenon, but anytime I interact with the camera in the rendering scene in ParaView, large meshes appear to be decimated - is there a way to disable this?

In the following GIF, the effect is drastic (most of the time it isn’t like this where the mesh has artifacts extending out) but most regions look as though they have been decimated.

 ![2020-01-14 15.21.20](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6f128001a4c46eb9549b9fee98e2dd2e2781c04f.gif)

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### Author: ![utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/utkarsh.ayachit/32/39_2.png) [@utkarsh.ayachit](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/utkarsh.ayachit)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/disable-camera-interaction-decimation-effect/3337/2 "2020-01-14T23:10:44Z")

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![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0e02e883e3182d79e86459c9ef05755a7efd9429.png)

Set **LOD Threshold** to max to disable it.

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### Author: ![wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/8e8cbc/32.png) [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2020, 11:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/disable-camera-interaction-decimation-effect/3337/3 "2020-01-14T23:15:06Z")

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Note that Paraview does this decimation on purpose when your mouse button is down, since it speeds up mouse movements for large to huge data immensely.

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### Author: ![banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/banesullivan/32/11714_2.png) [@banesullivan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/banesullivan)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/disable-camera-interaction-decimation-effect/3337/4 "2020-01-15T01:52:53Z")

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Aha! LOD - I wasn’t sure what that was called. Thanks, @utkarsh.ayachit!