Hi, On 4 Nov., 15:04, Stéfan van der Walt <ste...@sun.ac.za> wrote:

2009/11/4 SirVer <sir...@gmx.de>:

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Stefan, concerning my GUI branch: I played around with pyqt and QImages and they just couldn't deliver what I needed: Speed.

I'd like to see some benchmarks that support this, because it should be the cost of 2 python calls + whatever time the GUI uses.  QImage is fast when loading directly from a numpy array.  I'm not sure, with the copying that you have to do into a texture, that OpenGL can do any better. I did some benchmarks, but unfortunately I do not have the code around. I created QImages and painted them directly in PyQt. It was reasonable fast, but I couldn't reach the performance I have with a QGLWidget which delivers easily 300fps or 60fps in 12 different windows. I'd rather not hack this again since this issue is somewhat settled for me and I'd prefer spending my coding time on other itches I have.

I still think that PyQt is a much bigger dependency then PyOpenGL - and even so: both are optional and only needed when GUI stuff in real time should be performed. Cheers, Holger

Regards Stéfan