No luck. vtk 8.2 requires the OPENGL2 pipeline in VTK, and I think due to a problem with JOGL (which the devs here have alluded to), core dumps happen even with the demo code. Was hoping @Sebastien_Jourdain or @ben.boeckel would have been able to move this along, but no luck there either. It turns out your max version available on Macs is VTK 8.1, running in OPENGL1 pipeline mode (OPENGL2 does not work there either).