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    Default Qwt curve fitting takes a lot of time

    This is how my graph should work:
    My graph shows realtime the data collected from a plc. The plc generates a sample for the graph every 500ms (the graph redraws every 1000ms)
    the graph is auto scaling in x and y direction

    The problem:
    the job that the plc needs to complete can take several days, so it is collecting a lot of data. when the data pool is getting large the pc can't cope redrawing the graph so the HMI stops responding (and then can't keep the connection between the pc and plc alive)

    What I tried:
    (disabled all the nice effects like antialliassing)
    1. applying a curve fitter on the qwtcurve, but this still took a lot of time (tried both of the fitters)
    2. using an unfitted buffer and fit it every 20 sec and replace the data in the graph with the fitted data. during the 20 seconds (when the data is not getting fitted) the new data is added to both the unfitted buffer and the graph (so it still gets updated every second). The fitting was done by QwtWeedingCurveFitter but this fitter is realy slow at large data sets (takes about 2.5sec for a set of 100K and i got three sets of 100K)
    3. the same as point 2 but using the QwtSplineCurveFitter, this one is fast but it changes the graph too much

    Is there anyone who can help me

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    Default Re: Qwt curve fitting takes a lot of time

    Quote Originally Posted by StrikeByte View Post
    using an unfitted buffer and fit it every 20 sec and replace the data in the graph with the fitted data. during the 20 seconds (when the data is not getting fitted) the new data is added to both the unfitted buffer and the graph (so it still gets updated every second). The fitting was done by QwtWeedingCurveFitter but this fitter is realy slow at large data sets (takes about 2.5sec for a set of 100K and i got three sets of 100K)
    Douglas-Peucker is an expensive algorithm, but you don't have to apply it on all data again and again. It's enough to do it for the points of the last increment and to add them to the points that are already fitted from the previous increments.

    Uwe

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    Default Re: Qwt curve fitting takes a lot of time

    Thanks for the quick reply

    I was working on that, but I didn't know if it was gonna work
    does it reduce it as much as when i apply it to the subsets of data instead of the entire set?

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    Default Re: Qwt curve fitting takes a lot of time

    Quote Originally Posted by StrikeByte View Post
    does it reduce it as much as when i apply it to the subsets of data instead of the entire set?
    When you include the last 2 points of the previous subset - probably yes.

    Uwe

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    Default Re: Qwt curve fitting takes a lot of time

    This realy works well
    The repaint time was 2319ms and after the refitting it went down to 273ms

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