Re: The risks of Sphere export
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- From: Yves Klett <yves.klett at googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:50:35 -0500 (EST)
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Confirmed on Windows 7, Mathematica 8.04 with 16GB.
Even just evaluating:
Export["cellular.pdf",
Graphics3D[
Sphere /@
Position[CellularAutomaton[{10, {2, 1}, {1, 1}}, {{{1}}, 0}, 1],
1], ViewVertical -> {-1, 0, 0}]]
results in a horrible 21MB PDF with a gazillion polygons. Spheres and
Tubes do not work well together with PDF in my experience.
I would go for rasterizing at a suitable resolution.
Regards,
Yves
Am 15.11.2012 10:05, schrieb Andrzej Kozlowski:
> The following will crash my Mathematica every time:
>
> Export["cellular.pdf",
> Graphics3D[
> Sphere /@
> Position[CellularAutomaton[{10, {2, 1}, {1, 1}}, {{{1}}, 0}, 20],
> 1], ViewVertical -> {-1, 0, 0}], "PDF"]
>
> However, if I replace Sphere by Cuboid,i.e.
>
> Export["cellular.pdf",
> Graphics3D[
> Cuboid /@
> Position[CellularAutomaton[{10, {2, 1}, {1, 1}}, {{{1}}, 0}, 20],
> 1], ViewVertical -> {-1, 0, 0}], "PDF"]
>
> I get no crash.
>
> $Version
>
> 8.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (October 5, 2011)
>
> ?
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
>