antialiased not working for mlab.screenshot

[JackRBlack]

I'm using Mayavi in Jupiter notebook on macOS, and just found that, when using the screenshot function, the results are the same whether the antialiased option is on or not:

# draw something with Mayavi
mlab.figure(size=(500, 500))
obj = mlab.test_plot3d()

# call screenshot
a = mlab.screenshot(figure = obj, mode = 'rgba', antialiased=True)
b = mlab.screenshot(figure = obj, mode = 'rgba', antialiased=False)

# check if they are the same
np.max(a - b)

And this returns

0

which means they are exactly the same. Why is the antialiased option not working?

I searched the Mayavi documentations, and found this

obj.scene.anti_aliasing_frames = 8

I have tried to change this value, but nothing happened.

By the way, the rendering is pretty good in "x3d backend":

But using screenshot, the result is really a mess:

How to solve this problem?

[lopsided]

I'm having this same problem. @JackRBlack did you find any fix/workaround for this?

[JackRBlack]

I think I used matplotlib for antialiasing after acquiring the low-quality screenshot image. I'm not sure if this problem is fixed now because I haven't used mayavi since then.