Ravi,
I've 2 more to add to Paul's list :
1) Share Appearance wheneven possible.
2) If you decided to use our Sphere class, remember to share geometry;
it is share by default.
You'll see significant drop in memory footprint with the coming Java3d1.3.
- Chien Yang
Java 3D Team.
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>From: "Dipl. Ing. Paul Szawlowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] OutOfMemory error
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>just my 2 cents:
>
>1) reducing the the number of triangles per sphere
>2) reduce number of TransformGroups by precalculating the real world positions
>of the vertices (if positions stay fixed) -> put them all in one Geometry
>object.
>3) reuse the Geometry objects
>
>Probably you cant't use the Sphere class of the utils package to make use of
>these suggestions.
>
>4) use -Xmx option of the java VM to increase memory which will be used
>5) put more memory into the machine
>
>regards
>Paul
>
>"Durga.Banda" schrieb:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We are working on a tool to display macro-molecular structure. It sometimes
>> involve drawing thousands of sphere(for a ball & stick model). Because we
>> need to create those many TransformGroup and Sphere objects. It gives us a
>> OutOfMemory error.
>>
>> Is there any alternative way to create such a model?
>>
>> Any help or pointers will be highly appreciated
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ravi
>>
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