[Bf-python] Fwd: ANN: first release of IVuPy-0.1

[Toni Alatalo]

On Monday 13 February 2006 15:30, Campbell Barton wrote:
>  From my experience, you dont realy want to go over 100k objects in
> ... Keeping the object listbase down is good.

i wonder if it is the slowness in iterating thru the list to find an obj, or 
something else that starts giving probs?

> Using backdrop scenes also is a good way,

yah, also the Elephants Dream scenes are composed from very many parts with 
groups, scenes / renderpasses etc

but in simulation it is nice to have everything in same space .. say if you 
are driving a million bacteria .. a million is not a lot!

> - Cam

~Toni

>
> Toni Alatalo wrote:
> > On Monday 13 February 2006 14:57, Bobby Parker wrote:
> >> Blender. I've experienced problems with using Blender with larger
> >> numbers of objects ( say 1K or more).
> >
> > Blender itself does not have a limit for the amount of objects. 1k sounds
> > very little. do you mean finding obs slows down or what?
> >
> > ~Toni
> >
> >> On 2/12/06, Toni Alatalo <antont at kyperjokki.fi> wrote:
> >>> does anyone know these? sounds interesting!
> >>>
> >>> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> >>>
> >>> Subject: ANN: first release of IVuPy-0.1
> >>> Date: Sunday 12 February 2006 14:38
> >>> From: Gerard Vermeulen <gerard.vermeulen at grenoble.cnrs.fr>
> >>> To: python-announce-list at python.org
> >>>
> >>> I am proud to announce IVuPy-0.1 (I-View-Py).
> >>>
> >>> IVuPy is a Python extension module developed to write Python programs
> >>> for 3D visualization of large data sets using Qt and PyQt.  Python is
> >>> extended by IVuPy with more than 600 classes of two of the Coin3D C++
> >>> class libraries: Coin and SoQt.
> >>>
> >>> Coin is compatible with the Open Inventor API.  Open Inventor is an
> >>> object-oriented 3D toolkit built on OpenGL that provides a 3D scene
> >>> database, a built-in event model for user interaction, and the ability
> >>> to print objects and exchange data with other graphics formats.
> >>> The SoQt library interfaces Coin to Qt. See http://www.coin3d.org for
> >>> more information on Coin3D.
> >>>
> >>> IVuPy requires at least one of the Numerical Python extension modules:
> >>> NumPy, Numeric, or numarray (IVuPy works with all of them at once).
> >>> Data transfer between the Numerical Python arrays and the Coin data
> >>> structures has been implemented by copying.
> >>>
> >>> The design of the Open Inventor API favors ease of use over
> >>> performance. The API is a natural match for Python, and in my opinion
> >>> it is fun to program with IVuPy.
> >>>
> >>> The performance penalty of the design choice is small. The first
> >>> example at http://ivupy.sourceforge.net/examples.html demonstrates
> >>> this: NumPy calculates a surface with a million nodes in 1.7 seconds
> >>> and Coin3D redisplays the surface in 0.3 seconds on my Linux system
> >>> with a 3.6 GHz Pentium and a nVidea graphics card (NV41.1).
> >>>
> >>> The Inventor Mentor ( http://www.google.com/search?q=inventor+mentor )
> >>> is essential for learning IVuPy.  The IVuPy documentation supplements
> >>> the Inventor Mentor.  IVuPy includes all C++ examples from the Inventor
> >>> Mentor and their Python translations.  There are also more advanced
> >>> examples to show the integration of IVuPy and PyQt.
> >>>
> >>> IVuPy has been used for almost 6 months on Linux and Windows in the
> >>> development of a preprocessor for a finite element flow solver and has
> >>> been proven to be very stable.
> >>>
> >>> Prerequisites for IVuPy are:
> >>> - Python-2.4.x or -2.3.x
> >>> - at least one of NumPy, numarray, or Numeric
> >>> - Qt-3.3.x, -3.2.x, or -3.1.x
> >>> - SIP-4.3.x or -4.2.1
> >>> - PyQt-3.15.x or -3.14.1
> >>> - Coin-2.4.4 or -2.4.3
> >>> - SoQt-1.3.0 or -1.2.0
> >>>
> >>> IVuPy is licensed under the terms of the GPL.  Contact me, if the GPL
> >>> is an obstacle for you.
> >>>
> >>> http://ivupy.sourceforge.net is the home page of IVuPy.
> >>>
> >>> Have fun -- Gerard Vermeulen
> >>> --
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> >>>
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> >>>
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