On 10/26/11 2:49 PM, Jeff Brantley wrote:
I am working on code to draw tens or hundreds of thousands of squares
and connecting lines using the tkinter canvas, and it is incredibly slow
because, as I understand it, the canvas keeps the individual shape
objects around in memory and tests for the current visible bounding box
to touch them, and redraws them.
That may or not be why it's slow...
I am wondering whether PIL's ImageDraw module behaves in this manner, or
whether it instead just paints the shapes onto a raw pixel buffer,
effectively "staining" the pixels, rather than holding onto thousands of
identical objects.
you are right -- PIL just does the drawing, and is not any kind of
object canvas.
I assume that this would be much faster if it is the
case.
perhaps, and perhaps not. Keeping the objects around per-se isn't
necessarily a slow process. But certainly PIL's drawing is simpler.
I've found PIL drawing to be pretty slow, but for your use case, it may
well be fine.
For higher quality, you may want to look into Agg-draw:
http://effbot.org/zone/pythondoc-aggdraw.htm
I don't know if it's been rolled into PIL or not.
Do you need a GUI of some sort? or are you just drawing an image to save
to a file or something?
-Chris
Thanks for your help,
Jeff
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