[Paraview] 3d glyphs representation

[David E DeMarle]

+1 for move to plugin

My understanding is that that is an unfinished feature that has
languished for several releases now. It can be much faster than the
standard cpu level vtk glyphs, because it is implemented in the GPU
space and uses instancing instead of replicated geometry memory, but
without the GUI hooks in paraview to control what is glyphed and how,
it is less than useful in my opinion.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Paul Edwards <paul.m.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone actually use the 3d glyph representation?  I would rather it
> were to be removed and I actually remove it from my version.  Here are the
> problems I have:
>
> My datasets contain more than one vector and I cannot select which one to
> use
> The scaling is never right and not configurable
> Accidentally selecting it on very large datasets will take ages to render
> (or crash from memory usage)
> My datasets are multiblock and if I extract just one unstructured grid in a
> multiblock structure it will be the default representation (and will take
> ages to actually render if it doesn't crash from memory usage)
>
> Also, it is hardly any difference in effort to just click the glyph button
> to apply the filter (where you can configure what to see)
>
> If people do actually want this - how about releasing it as a plugin
> instead?
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
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