[Paraview] Point Gaussian Radius

[Cory Quammen]

Bruce,

Thanks for the report, and sorry for the inconvenience. Cleaning up
the Point Gaussian representation is being tracked in an issue here:

https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/17000

Best,
Cory

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Bruce Jones <bruce.david.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
> When using Point Gaussian for a large number of points, with an unsuitably
> large Gaussian radius, ParaView becomes unresponsive for a long time before
> it finally renders. In ParaView <=5.2, this was a fairly minor annoyance,
> the default Gaussian radius was always too high, but you could set the
> Gaussian radius to a suitable value before changing to point Gaussian.
> However, in ParaView 5.3 it is not possible to change the Gaussian radius
> before switching modes. With the default so high we are left waiting a long
> time before we are able to do anything again.
>
> My suggestion here is to either revert the behaviour back to 5.2, where the
> Gaussian radius could be specified before changing modes. Or (better), set
> the default to 0, which still renders the points, but without the massive
> lag time.
>
> Regards,
> Bruce
>
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Cory Quammen
Staff R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.