[Paraview] Particles, 3d shapes and a speed issue

[Viksit Gaur]

Hi all,

When displaying a rectilinear grid of particles, I end up seeing just 
square blobs for each particle, and am unable to get proper spheres with 
shading and lighting. I do choose the relevant options from the menu on 
the left, including Goraud shading. But to no avail.

Is there a specific option which needs to be set for this, or do I have 
something wrong with my rendering options/graphics drivers (maybe 
paraview's using software rendering instead of hardware)?

In fact, this is another problem I've been facing - paraview runs on a 
pretty powerful cluster, and I see results through SSH with X 
forwarding. Since this is a local network, the lag shouldn't be too much 
- yet, when rotating complex particle systems, I get very sluggish 
performance. I attributed to this being a drivers issue - but might 
there be other things which I'm not taking into account here?

Thanks,
Viksit



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Viksit Gaur

Social Robotics Lab
Department of Computer Science, Yale University
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