On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Howard <how...@renci.org> wrote:
> On 1/27/12 3:39 AM, Ian Thomas wrote:
>
> On 26 January 2012 19:36, Howard <how...@renci.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm rendering some images with about 3.5 million triangles into a
>> 512x512 png file using tricontourf. I'm running this in a virtual machine,
>> and I'm pretty sure that there is no graphics rendering hardware being
>> used. Is it possible, assuming the hardware was available, to make
>> tricontourf use the rendering hardware? Will that happen by default?
>>
>
> You are correct, there is no graphics hardware rendering. Rendering is
> controlled by the various matplotlib backends, and to my knowledge there
> are no backends currently available that use hardware rendering.
>
> There has been some work done on an OpenGL backend, but I am not sure of
> the status of this. The last time I checked it was pretty experimental.
> Perhaps someone involved with it can comment on its current status.
>
> Ian Thomas
>
> Ian
>
> Thanks very much for the reply. If it helps whoever is doing the OpenGL
> backend, I may be able to play with it a bit.
>
>
> Howard
>
>
That would be the Glumpy project.
http://code.google.com/p/glumpy/
As stated in an email response a while back, glumpy is intended to be a
testbed for developing the OpenGL backend for future inclusion into
matplotlib.
Cheers!
Ben Root
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