[vtkusers] Slicing performance in TCL

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "OV" == Oliver Vidovic <ovidovic at medipattern.com> writes:

    OV>  I am trying to optimize the performance of a small TCL
    OV> application. The application slices the data across one of the
    OV> axes (for example, across z axes - in x-y plane). This
    OV> application will later be used in an orthogonal data viewer.
    OV> My problem is that the usual pipelines work fine for small
    OV> vtkStructuredPoints data (64x64x64). But once the data becomes
    OV> larger (eg.  512x512x100), then user interface is not
    OV> responding in real-time any more.

    OV>  Any suggestions on how to do it?  I tried vtkImageReslice,

You could read the very nice FAQ entries here:

http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/vtkfaq?req=show&file=faq03.008.htp

and here:

http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/vtkfaq?req=show&file=faq03.007.htp


Another way to improve performance would be to throw more hardware at
the problem. :)

prabhu