[vtkusers] How to visualize thousands of actors with good performance

[Bill Lorensen]

Try this:

For your mappers,
mapper->Update();
mapper->StaticOn();

Is there any improvement?

Bill

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Affolter Martin <martin.affolter at ntb.ch> wrote:
> Hi vtkusers,
>
> Does anybody use vtk 5.4 or above to visualize scenes with a large number of actors ( > 1000 or even > 10000 )? We used to do that in vtk 4.4 with a decent interacting performance (rotating, zooming, paning... ) and a reasonable amount of memory. However, with 5.4/5.6 we hardly achieve a usable result.
>
> The scenes are quite simple. We visualize CAD-Models (Tools) showing faces, edges and vertices. All data is vtkPolyData, the pipeline looks like this:
>
> vtkPolyData -> vtkPolyDataMapper -> vtkActor
>
> We've already tried the FAQ hints for increasing performance with little success. If you have experienced the same or have a solution, maybe just a guess, please contact me. Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin Affolter
>
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