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

[Berk Geveci]

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On 4/4/06, Viksit Gaur <vik.list.vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> --
> Viksit Gaur
>
> Social Robotics Lab
> Department of Computer Science, Yale University
> http://gundam.cs.yale.edu
>
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