3D Parametric surface plot color interpolation

[KevinSequoia]

I have look all over for a solution to this but everything I find is only applicable to the older version of labview and those methods to do this are no longer available in LV2012 or later.

I want to use a 3D Parametric surface plot to display spherical data where the radial magnitude is mapped to a color gradient.  I can do this using a 3D surface plot, but for some reason this plot type completely bogs down my computer.  The grid size is only 360x90.  My computer has 32 GB of RAM, 8 CPUs running at 2.5 GHz, and NVIDIA Quadro 5010M graphics card.  LabVIEW becomes completely unresponsive for 10's of seconds anytime I try to change the view on the 3D surface plot.  However, the 3D Parametric surface plot renders really fast with no lag even when fast draw is turned off.  For this reason I chose to use the parametric style plot.

The problem is that the color interpolation is not working.  I have a 2D intensity graph and the 3D parametric graph.  Both are assigned a color map that I customize at runtime.  The 2D graph has a very nice gradient in the colors, but the 3D parametric graph only appears to use a dozen or so colors.  The same control feeds the color map to both graphs.  Interpolation = T, Color Map Mode = Absolute (tried it with relative too).  I really need for the colors to be smooth in the 3D plot the way they are in the 2D plot.

Thanks for any help.

[Ben]

Have you tried to open an old example of the CW-3D graph in 2012?

I can not be sure but I though the old CW graph would still not but was just removed from the palette and ...

Spoiler

replaced with a dog slow re-write

?

Ben

[KevinSequoia]

I have looked through this thread

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Multiple-polar-plots-into-a-3d-plot/m-p/270676#M144155

and tried to load the example code, but it does not load properly.

[Ben]

I downloaded the code I had posted in that thread and it opened and ran fine in LV 2016 on a Windows 7 32-bit machine.

I can say no more.

Ben