Try using a 2d point instead of a 3D sphere to cut down on the rendering load. Also try using the point sprite plugin. The display will let you scale and otherwise adjust the appearance of the points according to the data values.
David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 21 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-881-4909 On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Ewan Towie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am a fairly new user of Paraview but I am having difficulty in plotting a > very large set of 3D point data. I output data from Fortran to a .vtk file > using the polydata dataset followed by the point_data for each particle. (I > output the data in ASCII format at the moment, still not sure how to do the > binary output with Fortran..) Loading the resultant vtk file into Paraview > and using the Glyph filter I can assign a sphere to each point and get a good > plot of the 3D position using the default Glyph filter options (max number of > 5000 points). > > The problem arises when I try to plot all my particles in paraview by > increasing the maximum number of points in the Glyph filter. I am trying to > plot around 190000 particles and if I set the filter to plot this Paraview > just chokes! I have done such plots in the past using Tecplot so I know this > isn't impossible. > > Can anyone offer any help with this problem? > > I should say that I am running this on an 8-core workstation with 24Gb of > RAM, so I doubt I am hitting RAM limits ;-) > > Ewan > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
