<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Tim Smith (25121) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tksmith@minara.com.au">tksmith@minara.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">Hi,</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">I’m looking at a project</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">modelling a large dataset in 3d.</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">I looked at vpython</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">briefly since</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">I’m</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">familiar with python but</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">I found it far too slow for my purposes</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">– a model composed of just 50,000 spheres ran like a dog on a mid range quadro card, and my models might go up to a million data points.</font></span><span lang="en-au"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"><font face="Calibri">So</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">I’ve resigned myself to needing to use something like vtk in c++, however while</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">I wait for it to compile in visual studio,</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">I thought</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">I might ask if even vtk can handle such a</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">requirement?</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">I need to be able to rotate and zoom around the models with</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">reasonable ease as well as turn</font></span><span lang="en-au"> <font face="Calibri">various components of the model on and off.</font></span><span lang="en-au"></span></p>
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<p><br></p><p><br></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>If all you need to do is rotate, zoom and turn on/off models, check out Paraview. You will not need to use any programming at all. It is built for parallel visualization, so if you have access to more hardware you can surely achieve what you're looking to do.<br>
<br clear="all">Thanks,<br><br>David <br></div></div><br>