Re: [Plplot-general] Fast/slow plotting

[Arjen M. <arj...@wl...>]

> Hello,
>
> I have a C++ program that simulates the movements of polygons. It runs a
> plotting function e.g. every 100 iterations of the simulation. Why is it
> that
> when I use PLPLOT there is lots of flickering, but with PGPLOT it looks
> great
> without any flickering? Is PGPLOT much faster than PLPLOT or am I doing
> something wrong? With plplot it is too much flickering to be able to watch
> the polygons move around. I have tried setting the xwin device options
> nobuffering and sync, but there was no difference.
>

Hello Torquil,

the usual solution to avoid such flickering is using double-buffering.
I am not sure if PLplot has any device drivers that support that.

Which system are you working on and with what device drivers?

Regards,

Arjen