Behaviour of Plot/ListPlot & Export
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- Subject: [mg31722] Behaviour of Plot/ListPlot & Export
- From: SteveC <steve at fractalus.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:13:41 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Mathematica 4.1.1.0 on Linux
If I try
Plot[Sqrt[Prime[n]/Prime[n + 1]], {n, 1, 100}]
I get:
Prime::"intpp": "Positive integer argument expected in \
\!\(Prime[1.000004125`]\)."
Prime::"intpp": "Positive integer argument expected in \
\!\(Prime[1.000004125`]\)."
Prime::"intpp": "Positive integer argument expected in \
Prime[2.0000041250000002`]."
And a bunch more errors, however if I try
ListPlot[Table[Sqrt[Prime[n]/Prime[n + 1]], {n, 1, 100}]]
Then it works fine. Presumably Table[x,{x,1,100}] steps through integers
while Plot does not. This is surprising, I expected the same behaviour of
them. Is this a bug? Is this documented (I did look around)?
I have been doing a lot of work with Export[]ing single cells and animated
Gifs. I find Mathematica on something like
Export["somefile.gif",Table[<big list of graphics>]] will produce the
graphics and then export individual frames to /tmp/m<some number> as PNM
files *incredibly* slowly. It will take 3 minutes per image and they are
not complex images.
The CPU is not utilised during that time, only in small bursts, wait a few
minutes then do the next. For 100 cell animations this is frustrating. The
process tree has PNM.exe and GIF.exe running but doing nothing. Perhaps
they are timing out on some operation? I could run traces for the truely
interested...
Once it has exported all the images it appears to then keep them all in
memory before creating the GIF. I recently had a 600 frame animation [I
appreciate this should be in an mpeg, and I did so] where mathematica used
1 Gigabyte of memory plus 128 meg of swap before the kernel VM killed it
for eating all available resources. I respectfully suggest this
architecture is flawed. I am now using ImageMagick for all of these
operations. :-/
Also, Mathematica has a bug that I submitted where it crashes on changing
some prefs which was confirmed.
As an aside is there a version release > than mine and if so am I able to
obtain it?
tia
SteveC steve at fractalus.com fractalus.com/steve