[vtkusers] vtkImageReader2 slow

[T.R.Shashwath]

On Friday 01 Feb 2008 11:43:58 pm Prashanth wrote:
> All,
>         I'm reading a 512 x 512 x 176 image volume using
> vtkImageReader2. I'm using Python ( reading in an image volume is the
> first step in my GUI and therefore I'm using Python and TkInter). I did
> timings using vtkTimerLog with start/stop just around the "reader
> Update" line of code and it took me 136.6 seconds to read in the image
> volume. Here's some additional info. :  Image Data Type = Unsigned Short
> and Size = 90,112 Kb and I'm using Windows with VTK built using
> Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
>     I did make sure that my Python Wrapping variable (PYTHONPATH) was
> pointing to the Release libraries and I used the ReleaseDataFlagOn for
> vtkImageReader2. The image is stored on a different drive and I have
> mapped the drive to my computer using Windows' "Map Network drive". I'm
> on a 10Mbps network and I have 1Gb of RAM on my computer. 136 seconds
> still seems too long to read in a relatively small data set. Can someone
> help me figure out what's going on and help me speed up the process ?
> Thanks
> Prashanth
>
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Hi,

You should probably check a couple of things:
1) Is the dataset in text or binary format? I've found that a binary can be a 
few orders of magnitude faster than a text format file, because there's no 
parsing involved.
2) A 10 Mbit line means nothing more than 1.25 MB/s - which would indicate 
about 70 seconds just for the transfer, leave alone parsing and rendering. 
Try copying the file locally and opening again.

Regards,
Shash