[vtkusers] Multithreading and VTK

[Ben Harris]

Hello all,

After referring to the books, and online documentation, and searching 
the vtkusers list, I am still stumped.

Is it possible for a RenderWindowInteractor to process events and 
control the camera on one thread, while on another thread a simulation 
is running? At the heart of this question, I believe, is the level of 
thread-safety associated with the visualization pipeline.

Here is my application: I am writing an N-body simulation--a numerical 
simulation of celestial bodies which move due to gravitational 
interaction. I would like to run the simulation while allowing the user 
to pan and zoom the camera.

Thanks in advance,
Ben Harris

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