Are there ways to speed up cwgraph3d plotting?

Question

Hi,
I have a loop that updates the plot every time with new line data. If say for example, I am plotting an array of size 128 x 128, then initially the array is empty(0's) then the first line gets data and I plot the array, then the next loop I have a new line of data (2 total lines of data) which I plot, then 3 and so on. When I do this loop using an array of 1024 x 1024 I notice a considerable slowdown which I need to get rid of in my application. Is there some way to display one line of the array, and then just update the graph with the new line for each line so that the cwgraph3d doesn't have to plot the whole giant array each time. I'm assuming that this would speed things up.
Or is there some way (maybe with dll'
s) to speed up the plotting process.
Thanks in advance.
Kevin

Answer 1

Kevin,
Ploting 1Meg of points can take some time, the first thing to try is to set the 3D acceleration option. In the general properties of the graph there is checkbox to enable this; this will make the 3D graph use the HW 3D capabilities of you video card. In my couputer make a noticable difference. Besides from this there are a couple of advices that I can suggest:
1.-Insted of using zeros for the points that are not drawn, you can use a "Not a Number" (NaN) value. that way the 3D graph will not plot anything for the empty points. Here is some C code yo generate a NaN constant, you can replicate this in VB and have the graph plot just what is needed.
double xTemp=0.0;
xTemp/=xTemp;
z[10][10] = xTemp;
2.- diide your data in mult
iple plots. Instead of having one single plot with all the data, you can create 8 plots of 128 lines each to hold the data. That way you only redraw 1 plot when adding a line.
There is also the option of decimating the array to get a lower number of points with a lower resolution, then you have some sort of zoom option that draws a smaller data set with full resolution.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Juan Carlos
N.I.