Re: Re: Animation crash
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg69599] Re: [mg69533] Re: Animation crash
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:57:20 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net
With n=400 and Mathematica 5.2.0.0, it ran on my single-user Mac OS 10.4.7 with 1.5 GB of RAM without a problem.
Bob Hanlon
---- ben <benjamin.friedrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an example of an animation that crashes my mathematica;
> it might be that my problem is related to the fact that I am working
> only a terminal sharing the server with 40 other people.
> This morning when server load was really low, mathematica
> did hang up, but I could still open a shell to kill it.
>
> The delete key did not work.
>
> Bye
> Ben
>
> (* Rotating Helix *)
>
> \[Gamma]={r Cos[s/Sqrt[r^2+h^2]-\[Omega] t],
> r Sin[s/Sqrt[r^2+h^2]-\[Omega] t],
> h s/Sqrt[r^2+h^2]- vnet t }
>
> (* Animation [Caution: can crash system] *)
> n:=100; (* try high values *)
>
> Do[
> ParametricPlot3D[
> Join[
> RotateLeft[
>
> \[Gamma]/.{r\[Rule]1,h\[Rule]1,\[Omega]\[Rule]1,vnet\[Rule]0},
> 1],
> {{Hue[s/20],Thickness[0.01]}}]//Evaluate,
> {s,0,20},Axes->False],
> {t,0,2 \[Pi],2 \[Pi]/n}]
>
> Chris Chiasson schrieb:
>
> > try using the delete key
> >
> > On 9/13/06, ben <benjamin.friedrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > When I run animations in mathematica,
> > > it often hangs up with
> > > * playing the animation forever
> > > * allowing no keyboard input
> > > * restricting the mouse pointer to the area of the animation.
> > >
> > > In such a situation I don't even know how to kill mathematica.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to interupt the animations?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Ben
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > http://chris.chiasson.name/
>