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Slow rendering in jupyter notebook mode

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The new jupyter notebook mode is a great addition to Mayavi, though I've found it to be much, much slower than using the default plotting mode. For example, plotting a triangular mesh takes ~1 second normally, but after activating notebook mode, it takes more like 10-30 seconds.

E.g.,

![](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1839645/19902710/0aa1c9f6-a029-11e6-8ab1-0a8cb4516c21.gif)

It takes <1 second normally but here it takes much longer.

Are there any optimizations under the hood that could speed this up?

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