Re: [matplotlib-devel] Cairo backends and OpenGL use

2018-07-06 Thread Chris Barker - NOAA Federal via Matplotlib-devel
MPL does not have a backend that used “real” GPU rendering. And it’s very hard to make one, due to the really low level nature of OpenGL and similar APIs, and MPL’s rendering model. You might try VisPy — it was designed for OpenGL from the start. -CHB Sent from my iPhone On Jul 5, 2018, at 5:

[matplotlib-devel] Cairo backends and OpenGL use

2018-07-05 Thread Francesco Faccenda
Dear all, I am writing to you because of an issue regarding the use of OpenGL in cairo backends from matplotlib. As I set a cairo backend with the instruction matplotlib.Use(“WXCairo”), there is evidence that the graphic computation is not being carried out by the graphic card. Since the signif