This appears to be the result of a self-inflicted wound. I have been 
working this morning with one data set of six specimens and 3.2 million 
vertices and 5.5 million faces and a single specimen with 2.6 million 
vertices and 5.2 million faces.

Try this. Go into the morpheus directory and with a text editor remove the 
-Xmx1G parameter from:

morpheus.bat (for windows)
morpheus.sh (for Max or Linux)

This specifies one gigabyte of heap memory for Morpheus. This is a LOT when 
working with landmarks (the only supported data type when the scripts were 
written), but not so much for surfaces. On my system running 64bit Java, 
the default allocation is 5.4 gigabytes, and some of the above data push 
that limit.

Of course, the above are also near the limit of the graphics card, so 
adding one or more specimens scan to the six object data set could break 
the graphics display. I think that is why I have a subset of five files in 
my directory from a set of more scans - six or seven ran the graphics card 
out of memory (512MB), but I haven't checked

-ds

On Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 6:54:23 AM UTC-4, Abel Bosman wrote:
>
> Dear all, 
>
> My name is Abel Bosman and I am quite new (as of 2 weeks ago) to geometric 
> morphometrics, so my question might be a bit silly. 
>
> I wanted to use the program "Morpheus et al." to analyze my data on human 
> mandibles, obtained from a NextEngine 3D scanner. I stored this data as a 
> .ply file and selected "new from images" and then 3D. When I select the 
> appropriate file, the program seems to be stuck on "creating new dataset". 
> Is this because my files are too large? (15.9 MB) or am I doing something 
> wrong?. The data that is supplied with the program in the 3d section of the 
> file folder (.ply files on monkey skulls) seems to work properly, so I am 
> quite sure that the program is working as it should. 
>
> If you have any suggestions or other tips, I would be very glad to hear 
> them. 
>
> With kind regards, 
> Abel

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