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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: SSLT Dragon
Date: 24 Feb 2011 06:16:31
Message: <4d663e0f@news.povray.org>
On 24/02/2011 9:30 AM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
>> I had the same problem with Lucy, using MeshLab. Somehow I could not get it
>> >  converted.
> What seemed to be the issue? I also converted Lucy (I think with Meshlab +
> Poseray) a couple of years ago and had no problems. I did lower the triangle
> count a bit, since the file size was vast and I knew most of it would be
> sub-pixel in the scene I was making...
>
>
MeshLab fails with an error message saying that the application has 
requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way.

PoseRay might do it. But slowly, slowly!
After about 10 minutes loading the PLY file the % completed bar is at 
about 2%.

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     Stephen


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: SSLT Dragon
Date: 25 Feb 2011 03:07:13
Message: <4d676331$1@news.povray.org>
"Stephen" <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> schreef in bericht 
news:4d663e0f@news.povray.org...
> MeshLab fails with an error message saying that the application has 
> requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way.
>
> PoseRay might do it. But slowly, slowly!
> After about 10 minutes loading the PLY file the % completed bar is at 
> about 2%.

Same for me.

Thomas


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: SSLT Dragon
Date: 25 Feb 2011 03:59:09
Message: <4d676f5d$1@news.povray.org>
On 25/02/2011 8:07 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> PoseRay might do it. But slowly, slowly!
>> >  After about 10 minutes loading the PLY file the % completed bar is at
>> >  about 2%.
> Same for me.

I gave up after 21 hours and about 20% ~ 25% done

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     Stephen


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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: SSLT Dragon
Date: 25 Feb 2011 04:15:00
Message: <web.4d677237d81bd80d6dd25f0b0@news.povray.org>
Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 25/02/2011 8:07 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> >> PoseRay might do it. But slowly, slowly!
> >> >  After about 10 minutes loading the PLY file the % completed bar is at
> >> >  about 2%.
> > Same for me.
>
> I gave up after 21 hours and about 20% ~ 25% done

I'll try again next time I'm in front of it... failing that, I might still have
the converted .inc file, if it's still useful?


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: SSLT Dragon
Date: 25 Feb 2011 04:25:33
Message: <4d67758d$1@news.povray.org>
On 25/02/2011 9:11 AM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> I'll try again next time I'm in front of it... failing that, I might still have
> the converted .inc file, if it's still useful?

That would be great, Bill.

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     Stephen


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: SSLT Dragon
Date: 27 Feb 2011 03:18:16
Message: <4d6a08c8@news.povray.org>
"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
news:web.4d677237d81bd80d6dd25f0b0@news.povray.org...
> I'll try again next time I'm in front of it... failing that, I might still 
> have
> the converted .inc file, if it's still useful?

Yes, Bill, that would be fine indeed.

Thomas


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From: Bill Pragnell
Subject: Re: SSLT Dragon
Date: 27 Feb 2011 18:30:00
Message: <web.4d6ade48d81bd80da7b682960@news.povray.org>
Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 25/02/2011 9:11 AM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> > I'll try again next time I'm in front of it... failing that, I might still have
> > the converted .inc file, if it's still useful?
>
> That would be great, Bill.

http://www.infradead.org/~wmp/lucy.inc.zip

It's about 60mb. One mesh2, #declared as 'lucy'. Enjoy!


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: SSLT Dragon
Date: 28 Feb 2011 03:17:23
Message: <4d6b5a13@news.povray.org>
"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
news:web.4d6ade48d81bd80da7b682960@news.povray.org...
>
> It's about 60mb. One mesh2, #declared as 'lucy'. Enjoy!


Thank you indeed, Bill!

Thomas


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: SSLT Dragon
Date: 28 Feb 2011 04:05:31
Message: <4d6b655b@news.povray.org>
On 27/02/2011 11:29 PM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> It's about 60mb. One mesh2, #declared as 'lucy'. Enjoy!

Thanks Bill, quick to download too. :-D

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     Stephen


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From: Edouard
Subject: Re: SSLT Dragon
Date: 1 Mar 2011 05:00:01
Message: <web.4d6cc33fd81bd80dc4633eb90@news.povray.org>
Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 24/02/2011 9:30 AM, Bill Pragnell wrote:
> >> I had the same problem with Lucy, using MeshLab. Somehow I could not get it
> >> >  converted.
> > What seemed to be the issue? I also converted Lucy (I think with Meshlab +
> > Poseray) a couple of years ago and had no problems. I did lower the triangle
> > count a bit, since the file size was vast and I knew most of it would be
> > sub-pixel in the scene I was making...
> >
> >
> MeshLab fails with an error message saying that the application has
> requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way.
>
> PoseRay might do it. But slowly, slowly!
> After about 10 minutes loading the PLY file the % completed bar is at
> about 2%.

I thought I'd give this a go - I grabbed the PLY file of Lucy and wrote a few
lines of Smalltalk to convert into a mesh2 file - took about 30 minutes. Flat
polygons, but, as Bill said, they're probably going to be sub-pixel anyway.

But. But... The resulting file (with 5 decimal places of accuracy) is 1.2GB in
size, and when I tried to render it on my 4GB MacBook Pro, POV took about 3.8GB
of Virtual Memory, which nowhere near fitted into the 2.3GB of free RAM I had
after the OS and file buffers took their slices. I left it trying to parse the
file for about 50 minutes then just gave up.

I might give it a go on an AWS EC2 cloud instance - it's US$0.68 per hour for a
8 CPU/7G RAM/64 Bit machine. But I've still got to get a 1.2GB file onto it!

I'm *not* going to give anyone the file, but you welcome to take the code and
run it yourself in Pharo 1.2 (a Smalltalk development environment). You *will*
need a 6GB, 8GB or greater machine to use the mesh2 though!

Cheers,
Edouard.


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