Me too,
I often visualize the nodes in biggish FEM meshes
Thanks for the offer
Peter
At 23:45 09/01/2002 +0000, you wrote:
I do! I use Dx to visualize CFD results, sometimes with lots of particles.
I have run out of memory before exactly because of this.
Regards,
Mattijs
Gregory D Abram wrote:
I have a module that renders images of shaded spheres. It avoids the need
to create polygonal representations, and so requires lots less memory than
Glyph/Image. Though I haven't done any rigorous timing, anecdotally I
was able to render 36000 spheres using it in about 12 seconds with memory
set at 50M. In contrast, I needed 250 meg to glyph and software render the
same spheres in 18 seconds (using the default settings for Glyph) and never
got it done in hardware rendering. It comes in two forms: one analogous to
Render, eg. image = SphereRender(spheres,camera) and an interactive form
analogous to Image (using user interactors). It also optionally adds a fog
effect for depth cueing. Downsides are that that is all it does; you
can't put anything but spheres in there. It also doesn't do specular
hightlights, but it'd be trivial (and virtually free) to add.
Greg
