[Paraview] visualize atomistic data: memory hawk, crashing

[David E DeMarle]

I've had success in the past doing vis of molecules with both the
point sprite and manta plugins.

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



On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Steffen Brinckmann
<Steffen.Brinckmann at icams.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> Hey,
> I have some (1e6) atomistic data in paraview (nice xyz filesupport).
> Visualizing it as points is possible and very fast, but squares don't look
> too hot as atoms. So I tried to switch to 3D Glyphs, and that is when the
> problem begins.
>
> The memory consumption increases to a point where I run out of memory, when
> I use Filter->3D Glyphs and then choose "unmask" to see all atoms. When I
> choose the representation style (without Filter) as 3D Glyphs, the CPU usage
> increases and the software locks down.
>
> On the other hand, there is software (Ovito, Tecplot) (which I don't want to
> use for some reason) that can display this amount of data in a 1-4 seconds.
>
> Is there some hint that some of the paraview users can give me? Did I
> overlook something pretty obvious?
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Steffen
>
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