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    Thanks, for your speedy replies I will check them out - any ideas
    which will be most computationally efficient?<br>
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    Cheers<br>
    Alex<br>
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    On 2/7/2012 6:17 PM, David E DeMarle wrote:
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      <p>Use the glyph filter to make one actor with thousands of cubes.</p>
      <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 7, 2012 11:12 AM, "Alex Southern"
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          <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi,<br>
            <br>
            I'm wondering what the best way to do this is?<br>
            <br>
            Currently the cubes are defined in a dynamic array of
            vtkCubeSources, see code below. This results in very slow
            interaction.<br>
            <br>
            Is there a more lightweight approach to this problem? There
            is a typical image below.<br>
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            // Create a cube array.<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; int numCubes = 44582; // in practice this value could be
            anything<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; vtkCubeSource **cubeSource = new vtkCubeSource*
            [numCubes];&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; vtkPolyDataMapper **mapper = new vtkPolyDataMapper*
            [numCubes];<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; vtkActor **actor = new vtkActor* [numCubes];<br>
            <br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; for (int i = 0; i &lt; ca.numCubes; i++)<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; {<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cubeSource[i] = vtkCubeSource::New(); <br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; mapper[i] = vtkPolyDataMapper::New(); &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; actor[i] = vtkActor::New();<br>
            <br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cubeSource[i]-&gt;SetCenter(ca.cubeCentre[i].x ,
            ca.cubeCentre[i].y, ca.cubeCentre[i].z);<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cubeSource[i]-&gt;SetXLength(ca.cubeLength[i] );<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cubeSource[i]-&gt;SetYLength(ca.cubeLength[i] );<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cubeSource[i]-&gt;SetZLength(ca.cubeLength[i] );<br>
            <br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
            mapper[i]-&gt;SetInputConnection(cubeSource[i]-&gt;GetOutputPort());<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; actor[i]-&gt;SetMapper(mapper[i]);<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; actor[i]-&gt;GetProperty()-&gt;SetColor(255,0,0);<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
            actor[i]-&gt;GetProperty()-&gt;SetRepresentationToWireframe();<br>
            <br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; renderer-&gt;AddActor(actor[i]);<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; }<br>
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