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Re: Mathematica 6: No more memory available problem with ListDensityPlot

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• Subject: [mg89234] Re: Mathematica 6: No more memory available problem with ListDensityPlot
• From: "Guy Lamouche" <noemail at noemail.com>
• Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 03:34:12 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <g0rkgs$dup$1@smc.vnet.net>

Use Graphics[Raster[],...]. ListDensityPlot creates a Graphicscomplex, which 
is slow. ArrayPlot is faster, but still slower than Graphics[Raster[],..].


GL

"Kezhao Zhang" <kezhao.zhang at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:g0rkgs$dup$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi,
>
> I just purchased and installed Mathematica 6.0.2.1 for Windows (32
> bit, March 13, 2008) on a computer running Windows Vista with 3GB of
> ram. I was rather surprised and disappointed that the following
> commands crashed Mathematica:
>
> In[1]:= d = RandomReal[{0, 1}, {78, 20003}];
>
> In[2]:= Dimensions[d]
>
> Out[2]= {78, 20003}
>
> In[3]:= ListDensityPlot[d, AspectRatio -> 0.3, ColorFunction ->
> "Rainbow"]
>
> During evaluation of In[3]:=
>
> No more memory available.
> Mathematica kernel has shut down.
> Try quitting other applications and then retry.
>
> ListPlot3D[d] also leads to the same error.
>
> The array to be plotted is not forbiddingly large, so I am very
> puzzled by the out of memory error.
>
> Is this a bug or do I need to set memory usage in some way to increase
> the memory limit? Your help is highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kezhao
>