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Asked: 2026-05-28T00:05:17+00:00

I am interested in creating a 3D visualization of network packets. A few years

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I am interested in creating a 3D visualization of network packets. A few years ago these things sold for tens of thousands of dollars, but now I think that I can hack one together in a few hours using an open source 3D kit.

I’ve looked around and have found two kids that look good — one is Panda3D and the other is CrystalSpace.

My requirements are:

  • Fast to learn
  • Able to run from python or C++
  • Able to work with 50,000 polygons. (I want to represent each packet as a little brick in 3D space.)

This visualization doesn’t need to run in a browser.

So I’m looking for advice. My questions:

  1. Which is better for my application, Panda3D or CrystalSpace 3D?
  2. Is there another engine that I should be looking at instead?

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to get something going in only a few hours I think your only viable option is Visual Python. It is much faster than Panda3d/Python for large quantities of primitives and has a much easier API. It does not have an option to work from C++ but since it is a very thin wrapper of a C++ back end I don’t think you would be able to add too much performance dropping the Python. I can compute and display 8000 lit/shaded rotating boxes at 15fps on my system.

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