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Re: Problem with explorer and files

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From: Robert Brown
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:31
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In article <1992Aug17.222132.14484@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>, sands@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Greg Sands) writes:
|> 
|> Can anyone suggest a way to
|>   i) preserve the exact viewpoint/direction/zoom etc of the Render module

Version 1 Explorer provides no way to do this. A general solution won't be available
in V2.0, either.  It is a difficult problem, but we're addressing it for post-2.0
release.

|>  ii) allow more files to be created sequentially

Your description sounds like a memory leak or just hanging on to too many
images.  You might try a larger arena, using the "-arenasize" argument to
explorer or statement in your .explorerrc file.

|> and/or
|> iii) more efficiently create an animation sequence.

Version 2 will help here.  Meanwhile, perhaps using WriteLat to save images
would help -- it generates unique file names each time another lattice
arrives.

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Robert L. Brown
Manager, IRIS Explorer
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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