Ah, I see what you mean. Yeah, it seems reasonable performance wise for 
the pcd viewer on the table_scene_lms400_downsampled.pcd. 
table_scene_lms400.pcd (not downsampled) feels slightly jittery, but 
it's completely responsive to my panning around. I couldn't test it on 
my own pcds from the PR2 because I haven't installed an updated version 
of pcl on my home computer, but I'll try updating pcl and see whether 
that makes any difference.

-Ibrahim Awwal


On 1/15/2011 7:34 PM, Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote:
> No I meant more along the lines of... can you try to load a PCD file 
> using rosrun pcl_visualization pcd_viewer to see if it feels 
> accelerated/fast?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Radu.
> -- 
> http://pointclouds.org
>
> On 01/15/2011 07:33 PM, Ibrahim Awwal wrote:
>> Well currently, for some reason when I even try to run the Rviz 
>> configuration from
>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect/Tutorials/Getting%20Started it doesn't 
>> even get started at all, which is really weird. It
>> just sort of hangs looking like this: 
>> http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ibrahima/random/Screenshot-RViz.png
>>
>> The last time I ran it it eventually filled in the topics for the 
>> Point Cloud2 and Camera, but I still could not
>> interact with it at all. So maybe the issue is with something else? I 
>> installed the kinect package via the instructions
>> on http://www.ros.org/wiki/kinect .
>>
>> Previously with something else (trying to visualize a PR2) I was 
>> getting around 5 frames per second or less I believe,
>> which was pretty annoying to work with.
>>
>> -Ibrahim Awwal
>>
>>
>> On 1/15/2011 7:17 PM, Radu Bogdan Rusu wrote:
>>> Ibrahim,
>>>
>>> Just out of curiosity: are the PCL visualization accelerated on your 
>>> machine? Can you render point clouds fast enough?
>>> (I'll add a FPS text to the visualizer later today).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Radu.
>>> -- 
>>> http://pointclouds.org
>>>
>>> On 01/15/2011 07:14 PM, Ibrahim Awwal wrote:
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I'm having a problem running Rviz on my computer, which is an Intel 
>>>> Core
>>>> i5 2.4Ghz with an on-die GPU (integrated, but decent spec considering
>>>> it's made by Intel). According to google results this is at least
>>>> comparable to older nVidia graphics cards, but I can barely run 
>>>> Rviz and
>>>> it's very laggy on Ubuntu 10.10 with everything up to date. I also am
>>>> trying to work with the Kinect and openNI but the visualizations that
>>>> use Rviz are just too slow, although the regular libfreenect examples
>>>> (eg. freenect-glpclview) work perfectly fine at full framerate. It 
>>>> seems
>>>> like OGRE3D doesn't like intel GPUs unfortunately, but I've noticed 
>>>> that
>>>> some people are doing things with Atom boards, so I'm wondering 
>>>> whether
>>>> anyone else is able to run Rviz on Intel GPUs.
>>>>
>>>> I'm considering getting a cheap Intel Atom dual-core + nVidia ION box
>>>> for developing if it's unlikely for Rviz to work at all on Intel GPUs.
>>>> Would this be good enough for basic development? Ideally I could 
>>>> try to
>>>> run any CPU intensive nodes on my Core i5 and just do the 
>>>> visualization
>>>> on the ION box. Does anyone have experience with Atom+ION computers 
>>>> and
>>>> Rviz? I really need a development computer so that I don't need to go
>>>> into the lab to do anything useful. Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> (Addendum: Rviz also doesn't like new Radeon graphics cards either,
>>>> which is unfortunate because I do have a desktop with a high end 
>>>> Radeon
>>>> card. So in general, am I stuck with nVidia for doing anything with
>>>> Rviz, or is anyone having success with non-nVidia cards?)
>>>>