Re: [Jmol-developers] Heap overflow with large planes

[Bob H. <ha...@st...>]

> Charles(Qian) Xie wrote:
>
>> Bob:
>>
>> I gather that you might be interested in knowing that Triangle3D and 
>> Cylinder3D
>> could potentially have problems when rendering large planes or 
>> cylinders in the
>> mode of perspective depth. For instance, if one has a large molecule 
>> and wants
>> to draw a plane that cuts through the entire molecule, there will be 
>> an "Java heap
>> out of memory" error when zooming deeply.
>>
Very good catch, Charles. Thanks for finding this. I reproduced this and 
have fixed it.

I set it so that triangles > 3 x (screen height) and Cylinders with 
diameters > 3 x (screen height) are not rendered.
Mostly these would just get in the way, anyway.

Bob