Re: [Visualpython-users] visual 5.0 speed ?

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

Ah. I think it is the case that the Visual 5 spheres are rendered more 
carefully than those in Visual 3 (whose spheres often looked a bit 
angular), so I can imagine that with a very large number of spheres 
there would be a penalty. This is a good example of how very specific 
applications can be either faster or slower.

Bruce Sherwood

Guy K. Kloss wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:40:00 Gary Pajer wrote:
>> I have a subjective sense that it might be slower than 3.0.
> 
> I have experienced the same thing. Particularly for huge sets of objects to be 
> visualised. I'm using VPython to visualise results of numerical simulations 
> and computations with potentially thousands to 100s of thousands objects.
> 
> So for some I've switched from rendering spheres to points which hugely 
> improved performance again.
> 
> But I guess my use case is less usual, so it may very well be that for 
> "normal" use cases 5.0 is faster than v 3.
> 
> Guy
>