I have now changed all package build scripts so that future distributions of Morpheus (and Morpheus derived) programs will not have this parameter. I did not change the currently posted distributions, and anyone with this problem can simply delete the parameter from the startup script.
On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at 9:49:55 AM UTC-4, dslice wrote: > > 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 > > -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
