> On 19 Apr 2016, at 22:29, R. Vestergaard <r...@localdomain.dk> wrote: > > Greetings! > > I am trying to visualize a large-ish mesh (~500MB), and the interface is > really slow. > When rotating the mesh, I seems gmsh maxes out one CPU core, while the > rest remain idle. Adding a Nvidia video card did not help speed things > up. > > Any general tips on optimizing performance for interactive use? >
Remove the display of invisible things (e.g. volume edges/faces)? Gmsh does not simplify the mesh when displaying it (e.g. like Paraview): everything that's in the mesh is put in the OpenGL vertex arrays... even if it's not visible. > Regards, > Ruben Vestergaard > > _______________________________________________ > gmsh mailing list > gmsh@onelab.info > http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh -- Prof. Christophe Geuzaine University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~geuzaine Tetrahedron V, July 4-5 2016: http://tetrahedron.montefiore.ulg.ac.be Free software: http://gmsh.info | http://getdp.info | http://onelab.info _______________________________________________ gmsh mailing list gmsh@onelab.info http://onelab.info/mailman/listinfo/gmsh