Re: [Visualpython-users] Look around

[Ron A. <rr...@ro...>]

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> That's a spectacular demonstration of work that needs to be done on the 
> beta version, as it takes 5 seconds (!) to render the scene on my 
> laptop, whereas the display and motion are completely smooth in the 
> production version of VPython.

I could possibly change it to add the asteroid objects after the main loop 
is started until a desired frame rate is achieved.  It will still run 
smoothly on slower computers that way.  And display the object count in a 
corner for comparisons.


> I've added this to the contributed section of vpython.org. Thanks!

You're welcome, it was fun to figure out how to do it too.

Ron





> I deleted the unnecessary line that made the mouse cursor visible, since 
> that's the default and this feature is as yet missing from the beta 
> version, should someone wish to see the extreme slowness of the rendering.
> 
> Bruce Sherwood



> Ron Adam wrote:
>>
>> Bruce Sherwood wrote:
>>> Questions were asked recently about looking outward from the origin 
>>> (or other location) and rotating the view of the surrounding scene. 
>>> As an example of this kind of viewing, see look_around.py in the 
>>> contributed section of vpython.org.
>>>
>>> Bruce Sherwood
>> Here's a fun demo that uses rotating and spin I meant to submit some 
>> time ago and never did.
>>
>> Enjoy,
>>    Ron Adam
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