[Bf-committers] Sci viz , was (no subject)

[Chris Want]

Hi Lisa,

I suspect that the performance of trying to visualize
256 million vertices in Blender will be too slow to be
usable.

Maybe try vtk or paraview first, then if you're successful
try Blender.

I have been successful visualizing data sets with a large
number of vertices using point sprites, as part of a hack
to vtk.The author of the vtk hack has written a module for
ParaView called pv-meshless to do this:

https://twiki.cscs.ch/twiki/bin/view/ParaViewMeshless

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Chris

L wrote:
> Hi, I am working with visualization problems (fluids, liquid 
> crystals...) in a research center and I wish to know if it is possible 
> to do this with Blender and how.
>  
> My problems are:
>  
> 1. I have the 3D coordenates of the boundaries who limits the two fluids 
> (one of them is transparent). So I have to represent the shell of a 
> mesh. I have a large amount of scientific data who has been already 
> calculated by another physic scientist.
>  
> I have tried the solution of Hans,
> http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=103587&highlight=CSV&page=5 
> <http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=103587&highlight=CSV&page=5>
> it is right (it connect the vertices) but the final appearance is not so 
> good (due to the solution uses too many edges I think).  
>  
>  
> 2. If it is possible to obtain a good representation, I will have to 
> manage with a mesh of 256.000.000 vertices. Anyway, I have access to a 
> one supercomputer.
>  
> 
> 3.  Can you please tell me if it is possible to do this with blender? if 
> not, can you give me another cheap solutions? (I have been told about 
> using vtk + blender or another open source tools like paraview, openDX...)