[Paraview] paraview hangs on volume rendering

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Wed May 4 09:10:24 EDT 2011


I am not sure what's the problem. I could easily volume render your
dataset (image attached). Are you running in parallel or using builtin
mode?

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:59 AM, pratik <pratik.mallya at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried using volume rendering for the following example. It did work, but
> took a *tremendous* amount of cpu (i'm running core2duo @2100MHz) and was
> *very* slow. Is it supposed to take that much cpu and time?
> Also, how can i check whether PV is using my graphics card(if that is the
> problem)?
>
> example file:
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <!DOCTYPE Xdmf SYSTEM "Xdmf.dtd" []>
> <Xdmf Version="2.1">
> <Domain Name="Your_Domain">
> <Grid GridType="Uniform" Name="Your_Grid">
> <Topology TopologyType="3DCoRectMesh" Dimensions="2 2 2"/>
> <Geometry Type="ORIGIN_DXDYDZ">
> <DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="3" Format="XML">0.0 0.0 0.0
> </DataItem>
> <DataItem DataType="Float" Dimensions="3" Format="XML">0.1 0.1 0.1
> </DataItem>
> </Geometry>
> <Attribute Name="S" AttributeType="Scalar" >
> <DataItem Format="XML" Dimensions="4">
>                      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> </DataItem>
> </Attribute>
> </Grid>
> </Domain>
> </Xdmf>
>
> pratik
> On Wednesday 04 May 2011 01:06 AM, pratik wrote:
>>
>> I also tried running the same example on an sgi altix cluster: same
>> result. Do i have to choose any specific options during the build to enable
>> volume rendering to work correctly?
>>
>> pratik
>> On Monday 02 May 2011 09:20 PM, pratik wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> this question was posted earlier here:
>>> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/paraview/2009-March/011408.html
>>> I have tried running the tutorial example disk out ref.ex2 but volume
>>> rendering example makes PV hang. I have tried this out with PV 3.8 and 3.10
>>> on debian squeeze 32 bit and PV3.10 on 64 bit (local run, no pvservers)
>>>
>>> pratik
>>
>
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