hi all, i’m returning to Processing after a few years absence, using 4.2 IDE. i need to draw a million rectangles in 3d space, each with a new position every frame (think floating pixels) but frameRate on my mac is slowing to a crawl (< 2 fps) above about 20000. i’m using P3D, and i’ve tried using …

Give this code a try to see if it even runs on MacOS. And then to see how fast it is. import java.nio.ByteBuffer; import java.nio.ByteOrder; import java.nio.FloatBuffer; import java.nio.IntBuffer; import com.jogamp.opengl.*; int N = 1000000; PVector[] pos; PVector[] vel; void setup() { size…

Strategy for drawing a million objects/rectangles?

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glv July 14, 2023, 5:17pm 2

Hello,

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