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Re: how to ListPlot3D large data sets

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• Subject: [mg120537] Re: how to ListPlot3D large data sets
• From: Oliver Ruebenkoenig <ruebenko at wolfram.com>
• Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:53:25 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Ted Sariyski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In one attempt MaxPlotPoints did not help, but I was not persistent
> because I have to resolve other issues before I return to ListPlot3D.
> One issue is that I cannot pack data. On the big data set I verify that
> it is numeric array and still  I cannot get it packed. Here is an example:
>
> mydata={{0.00100,10.,0.},{0.00100,10.,0.00100},{0.00100,10.,0.00200},{0.00100,10.,0.00300},{0.00100,10.,0.00400}};
>
> MatrixQ[mydata,NumericQ]
> True
>
> myPackedData=ToPackedArray[mydata,Real];
>
> MatrixQ[myPackedData, NumericQ]
> True
>
> PackedArrayQ[myPackedData]
> False
>
> What I am doing wrong?
> Thanks,
> --Ted


Ted, possibly ToPackedArray are not on you context path

either try

<<Developer`

or

mydata = {{0.00100, 10., 0.}, {0.00100, 10., 0.00100}, {0.00100, 10.,
     0.00200}, {0.00100, 10., 0.00300}, {0.00100, 10., 0.00400}};
myPackedData = Developer`ToPackedArray[mydata, Real];
Developer`PackedArrayQ[myPackedData]

Oliver

>
> On 7/25/2011 7:30 AM, Oliver Ruebenkoenig wrote:
>> 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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