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From: Engelman, Joshua (joshengelman_at_vistamarschool.org)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2012 - 16:32:01 CDT

John,
Pov-ray freezes, followed by a vmd crash. The machine has 8 gb ram, so this
shouldn't be an issue. The other renderers work fine. I'm running windows 7
and vmd 1.9.1, using the new hoomd blue xml parser plugin

Joshua Engelman
University of Michigan
On Apr 23, 2012 1:52 PM, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Joshua,
> I'm curious about the POV-Ray crash you described. Does VMD
> itself crash, or does POV-Ray crash? How much memory does your
> computer have? It is possible that either POV-Ray or VMD are
> running out of memory. If you can tell me more details of your
> machine that would be helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 01:54:54PM -0700, Engelman, Joshua wrote:
> > Hello again,
> > I've created a simple 1000 particle system that runs for 100
> timesteps.
> > I've been testing the moviemaker plugin, and have run into a number
> of
> > problems. First, using POV-ray to render causes VMD to crash.
> Second,
> > regardless of the renderer used (Tachyon, Internal Tachyon,
> Snapshot), the
> > movie severely degrades in quality after around .5 seconds (out of 4
> in
> > the trajectory movie). I know that it has to be small because of the
> > compression size, but it shouldn't continue to get worse as the movie
> > plays. Any advice?
> > Joshua Engelman
> > University of Michigan
>
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