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Re: how to ListPlot3D large data sets

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• Subject: [mg120487] Re: how to ListPlot3D large data sets
• From: Oliver Ruebenkoenig <ruebenko at wolfram.com>
• Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:30:01 -0400 (EDT)
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2011, Ted Sariyski wrote:

> Hi,
> I guess I am pushing the limits of ListPlot3D. I try to ListPlot3d a data
> set with many millions of records. I was not able to get an image from the
> full dataset, it takes forever. If I use e.g. every fifth record, although
> slow, I get an image. The machine running Mathematica is Windows 7 (64 bit),
> has 24 GB RAM and there was no swapping. I wonder what is considered as a
> reasonable data size for ListPlot3D and are there other tools in Mathematica
> for visualization of large data sets?
> Thanks in advance,
> --Ted
>
>
>

Ted,

is your data packed?

Developer`PackedArrayQ[yourData]

Oliver

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