Re: Fastest way to draw lots of points

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Ryan Hope <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think miss the point that this is a moving star field, the points
> are in new locations every frame. I dont see how display lists can
> help with dynamic data.

You're right, that when the data are changing (not jsut the view on
the data) you lose much of the benefit of OpenGL. NOne the less, you
still can get benefit, particularly in Python, from using VBOs -- that
way there is no looping in Python -- you can build a VBO from a numpy
array at the speed of C.

Display lists probably wont' help as you would still need to build up
the list -- it's also old-style and practically deprecated approach.

-Chris

> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Ian Mallett <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The most efficient ways to draw points are none of what you have here. You
>> should look into display lists (or better, VBOs).


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