[PyOpenGL-Users] PyOpenGL accelerator module

[Eric J. <jo...@MI...>]

Hello! First my apologies if this has been discussed on the list
recently, I couldn't find the relevant sf page for searching the mailing
list archives. 

I'm interested in constructing an openGL-based time series viewer for
some of our tens-of-megabyte time series data, that will work
interactively from python. Matplotlib totally fails when looking at data
of this scale, and the speed of navigation is pretty crucial. 

But I'd like to do as much as possible from python/numpy/scipy, and then
pass the loosly-processed data off to the GPU (i've done a bit of GLSL
work) for visualization. My only concern is that, with its new
ctypes-based bindings, pyopengl3 will be too slow for this sort of
application. 

...Which brings me to the accelerator module -- do people think this
would really be necessary for this sort of app? How much work would it
be to prototype things with the existing pyopengl3 interface and then
"drop in" the accelerator module? I've not been able to find much
documentation about the shape of the eventual module. 

Thanks again, I'm excited to get back to hacking OpenGL !
			...Eric