Issue link: https://resources.randsim.com/i/1492512
91 Motivation for Accelerated Animation • Accelerated Animation, despite the name, is not just about accelerating animation display. It also makes use of newer OpenGL technology to improve the fidelity of rendering, move away from (long) deprecated OpenGL calls, increase control over the rendering stack, and more. It also makes use of other techniques including asynchronous processing to improve the user experience. • In many cases this does directly improve performance (both runtime and memory), sometimes drastically. In other cases this simply improves rendering and prepares for other enhancements and on the fly changes (such as on the fly legend updates without any graphics regeneration). • Ultimately this feature is the first fruits of a larger initiative to revamp Mechanical result display for a variety of goals, of which performance is only one.