[Paraview] Tube as Point Sprite

[David E DeMarle]

You might try the MantaView plugin. vtkManta renders line segments
directly as tubes without creating intermediate geometry. It think it
will just about handle 4 million elements on a desktop class PC. If
not you can render on a cluster.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
28 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-371-3971 x109



On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Jerier Jean-François
<jean-francois.jerier at epfl.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
>  I use the tube filter to visualize a mesh, it is really convinient for me because with the lines the render is not really fine.
> You can see the difference from the two attached files
>
> Now, I have a mesh with 4 millions of segments and it is quasi impossible to use the tube.
>
> Therefore, I would like to know if it exists a tube filter under shape of texture like the point sprite ?
>
> Regards
> JF
>
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