Ron, tough it is not squeak related, if you can code in python I've made 
a very simple opengl-based library called 'devachan':

http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/sw/devachan

10,000 objects represented as squares are 20,000 triangles, which is not 
a problem for opengl accelerated cards.

The source code is in c and it's so easy to understand and modify that 
you can easily add a specific function to draw your grid (and modify the 
color of each square) in c to overcome the performance limitation of the 
python interpreter.

If you want you can control the animation from squeak via OSC (devachan 
can display its content in a system window as well as in fullscreen).

Cheers,

Cesare

Ron Teitelbaum wrote:

>Yoshiki,
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>Ok I'll give it a try and see.  I see that it's a 100x100 display, so 10,000
>objects.  Each object would be its own turtle, I suppose, and only the color
>needs to change, there is no movement.  I'm thinking for what I'm trying to
>show that will probably be good.
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>Thanks,
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>Ron 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
>>bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Yoshiki Ohshima
>>Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 6:19 PM
>>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>>Subject: Re: Graphical Display of 100,000 objects
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>>  Ron,
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>>>I saw it but wasn't sure how difficult it would be to plug it in, and I
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>>>wondering if it was overkill, holding simulation functionality, when I
>>>already have objects doing the work.
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>>  What do you mean by "plug it in"?  Even you don't do the tile
>>scripting, it should be much, much easier than "plug Open GL in".
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>>-- Yoshiki
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