Hello Jim,
if you are using a DisplayImplJ2D display, try a DisplayImplJ3D instead.
It might be faster.
Regards,
Jim.
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Jim Koutsovasilis
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
jimk@xxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:24:52PM -0600, Jim Cookas wrote:
> hello group
>
> first off, many thanks to all who helped with my previous question regarding
> constant maps...however, i now have a new problem...
>
> the application i am currently developing with visad has a feature to load
> and display 2d image data from an ascii file...i am using the textadapter
> class to read the file and turn into a flatfield...the ascii file is in the
> tab-spaced format that the textadapter class can read....here is a snip of
> the first five lines of an example ascii file:
>
> <snip>
> (Down_Range,Cross_Range)->(RCS)
> Down_Range Cross_Range RCS
> -755.383 -755.383 -124.0984508
> -731.684 -755.383 -124.0586397
> -707.986 -755.383 -123.995843
> -684.288 -755.383 -123.9096856
>
> ...and so on
> </snip>
>
> in this case, 'down_range' maps to the x-axis, 'cross_range' maps to the
> y-axis, and 'rcs' maps to an rgb value...everything loads and displays fine,
> but there are three major problems:
>
> 1) loading the data is ___sloooow___...the example file i snipped above comes
> to 147515 bytes (256 x 256 image size) and it takes a solid 30 seconds from
> when the file is opened to when the image is finally displayed...we have c++
> code in other applications that loads and displays the same data almost
> instantly...is it a java problem?...is it visad?...is it something i'm doing
> wrong?
>
> 2) panning and zooming of the image (and line plots for that matter) are slow
> and choppy...when data is rendered as points, these functions are very quick,
> smooth, and acceptable...is there any way to speed up panning/zooming?
>
> 3) is there any way to increase the resolution of the image rendering to make
> it more 'smooth'?...right now it looks textured...when zoomed in closely, the
> data points look very triangular...any ideas?
>
> thanks in advance for any help that can be provided...let me know if you need
> more information from me...peace!
>
> jc
>
