Re: RenderAll crash
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg12503] Re: RenderAll crash
- From: weber@math.uni-bonn.de (Matthias Weber)
- Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 18:10:37 -0400
- Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany)
- References: <6j3ifo$ckm@smc.vnet.net> <6jjbi0$gol$1@dragonfly.wolfram.com>
In article <6jjbi0$gol$1@dragonfly.wolfram.com>, dreissNOSPAM@nospam.earthlink.net (David Reiss) wrote: > As a first step take a look at: > http://www.wri.com/support/Systems/Windows/OutOfMemory.html and see if > this helps to correct your problem. > > > In article <6j3ifo$ckm@smc.vnet.net>, Patrick Klein > <rickeroo@leland.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > I'm having trouble with the "RenderAll->False" option for Graphics3D. > > When the number of graphics objects gets large enough, Mathematica > > crashes. The code below crashes v3.0 running on NT4.0.1 with 256Mb of > > physical RAM and v2.2.2 and v3.0 running on a G3 with 50Mb of RAM set > > aside for the Kernel. I don't seem to be running out of memory, and > > with "RenderAll->True", I have no trouble with pictures 10 times as > > large. Any clues? > > > > The code (I'm just using Sphere as a convenient way to generate plot > > data): > > > > <<Graphics`Shapes` > > s1 = Sphere[3]; (* generates 2582 Polygons, Sphere[2] isn't big enough > > *) > > s1Gr = Show[Graphics3D[s1]]; > > > > (* just another polygon *) > > polyGr = Graphics3D[{SurfaceColor[GrayLevel[.75]], > > Polygon[{{-2,-2,-3},{2,-2,-3},{2,2,-3},{-2,2,-3}}]}]; > > > > (* the crasher *) > > Show[s1Gr, polyGr, RenderAll -> False]; > > > > > > ...any help would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > David Reiss That does probably not help. Similar problem on a Mac (3.0) and under Linux (3.01). It would be nice if Wolfram would also mention bugs they can't fix at the moment in their support pages -- that would save us a lot of time. Matthias Weber