Re: Re: RenderAll crash
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg12585] Re: [mg12503] Re: RenderAll crash
- From: "Eric Mockensturm" <eric@mote.me.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 14:24:57 -0400
Is this crashing the front end or the kernel? It sounds like the kernel
but it seems similar to a problem I have with the front end (3.0 on a
Mac) crashing when displaying many graphics. Tech support has been
useless in helping me.
> > 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.
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>From: weber@math.uni-bonn.de (Matthias Weber)
>To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
>Subject: [mg12585] [mg12503] Re: RenderAll crash
>Date: Sat, May 23, 1998, 3:10 PM
>
>http://www.wri.com/support/Systems/Windows/OutOfMemory.html