Segmentation Fault During Parsing

I am trying to render a polymer that has 250k atoms.  I wrote a script 
to convert the xyz file into pov code.  There are around 1 million 
lines.  I get a segmentation fault during parsing.  Is there a way to 
fix this or am I just trying to render to many lines?


Also if anyone has any suggesting on other posible programs that could 
animate large xyz files.

I am doing my rendering on a unix cluster.
dual 2.4 mhz 2gigs ram.

Please Email me at: Dan### [at] csumbedu

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Daniel wrote:
> 
> Segmentation Fault During Parsing
> 
> I am trying to render a polymer that has 250k atoms.  I wrote a script
> to convert the xyz file into pov code.  There are around 1 million
> lines.  I get a segmentation fault during parsing.  Is there a way to
> fix this or am I just trying to render to many lines?

There is no limitation in POV for the number of lines a scene file can
have (at least not in the order of one million).

> I am doing my rendering on a unix cluster.
> dual 2.4 mhz 2gigs ram.

On a cluster - then probably not the official version - in that case the
problem could lie just anywhere. 

If you really want support for your problem you should:

- see if it happens with the latest official unmodified version.
- tell what hardware you are using.
- tell what the scene file contains (type of objects and other features
used).
- tell at what size of scene (number of objects) this starts.

Christoph

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Among other things, Daniel wrote:

> Also if anyone has any suggesting on other posible programs that could
> animate large xyz files.
> 

I think this Windows program can:

http://www.accelrys.com/dstudio/ds_viewer/

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light_source{9+9*x,1}camera{orthographic look_at(1-y)/4angle 30location
9/4-z*4}light_source{-9*z,1}union{box{.9-z.1+x clipped_by{plane{2+y-4*x
0}}}box{z-y-.1.1+z}box{-.1.1+x}box{.1z-.1}pigment{rgb<.8.2,1>}}//Jellby

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