Re: 3D Animations are killing my system
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- Subject: [mg38199] Re: 3D Animations are killing my system
- From: huhoic at aol.com (RAyRAy)
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:30:02 -0500 (EST)
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can you include or send me the notebook with these parametic plots. I would be interested in looking at them and see how they run on my machine. >Subject: [mg38199] 3D Animations are killing my system >From: "Steven T. Hatton" hattons at globalsymmetry.com To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net >Date: 12/3/2002 2:12 AM Pacific Standard Time >Message-id: <asi01o$eo8$1 at smc.vnet.net> > >I've been trying to run some modestly complicated animations consisting of >several ParametricPlot3D curves. I can generate the sequence of images, but >when I try to use ShowAnimation, Mathematica starts using all the CPU, and if > >there is sufficient number of frames, It starts swapping. What that happens >I either have to reboot the system, or wait several minutes for Mathematica >to let me have a few cycles so I can kill it. I've seen what I can do with >Java 3D, so I know such animations can be run on this box. > >What is actually happening when the animations are run? Even if I get them >to >start, they never run smoothly. The always freze momentarily about every 7 >frames or so, and sometimes they will stall for a fairly long period. > >I really think Mathematica is a wonderful program for handling mathematical >problems. It's ability to graph mathematical functions is fantastic. I am >interested in studying the time evolution of physical systems, and believe >that 3D animation is the best way to understand the mathematical expressions >used to describe these systems. When I get beyond the simplest systems, >Mathematic seems unable to support this aspect of my modeling. > >I don't have time to write my own mapping between Java 3D and Mathematica, >unless WRI wants to fund the effort. Is there a good way to handle this kind > >of situation using Mathematica? >-- >STH >Hatton's Law: >"There is only One inviolable Law." >