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Re: RenderAll crash


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  • 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



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