# OSPRay pathtracer: How to get more vivid colors

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ospray-pathtracer-how-to-get-more-vivid-colors/7951
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 7, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ospray-pathtracer-how-to-get-more-vivid-colors/7951 "2021-09-07T15:14:06Z")
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### Author: ![bastian](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/bastian/32/7513_2.png) [@bastian](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/bastian)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2021, 4:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/ospray-pathtracer-how-to-get-more-vivid-colors/7951/4 "2021-09-09T16:26:38Z")

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> [@Different colors using OSPRay pathtracer since PV 5.9](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/7282):
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> Dear ParaView-Team, I noticed that ParaView 5.9.0 renders images with different colors compared to ParaView 5.8.0 when using the OSPRay pathtracer. Please see the attached screenshots. I used the following PV binaries from your website and ran it on Ubuntu 20.04: ParaView-5.9.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.8-64bit ParaView-5.8.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.7-64bit I used the following steps to obtain the screenshots: started PV with paraview output/soma-clustering/soma-clusterin.pvsm (data files attached) cli…

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