Can WPF render a line path with 300,000 points on it in a performance-sensitive environment?

Question

A simple XY line graph: The X axis will represent the complete range of possible rating percentages, from 0% on one end to 100% on the other. Specifically, the X value will

Answer 1

IMHO, Paul seems to be on the right track, check out the sections on map smoothing, some of the examples use results from the Florida 2000 election results (~9M votes 18+M total people) for data sets.

Along the lines of the thread from AgileJon, somewhat, I would use simply manually emit a bitmap if no straight forward technique was available to better depect your data set. I render visualizations of scatter plots that are easially 16 000 000 (16 Million+) in seconds, full 32bit ARGB pallette.

You seem to of remarked "But going back to bitmaps seems like a giant step backwards", I would not be so quick to say that, the universe is bound by physical limits.

I referred another post to this codeproject article, which does many tens of thousands of 3D plots + animation etc...