JAVA 3-D APPLET SETUP
Updated 12-5-06
3-DIMENSIONAL GALLERY SETUP
To view the 3-D gallery you must have some JAVA software installed. It is definitely worth it and only needs to be done once. Although it may take a while we hope to develop downloadable installations so users can create their own galleries. Developers: Charles Casey and Veerganesh Yalla.
Here are the steps that you need to do or verify before being able to use the online viewer.
- You must have the JRE installed. You probably already have this but if you go to the following site, you can both “verify” or “download” the latest. http://www.java.com I did notice that if you already have a JRE version, you will be asked to remove it using your Conrol Panel – Remove Software.
- This
is most likely the software you really need but don’t have on your system
yet. Download and install it from:
http://www.downloadjava3d.com/java3dtest.php. - FOR THE BIGGER FILES (>10MB), you may need to increase your heap memory. After you installed the Java, (for MS XP), in Steps 1 and 2, a JAVA icon will show up in your “Control Panel” Folder. Click on the JAVA icon to open up the controls. Then select the JAVA tab. In the “Java Applet Runtime Settings” group, select “View.” This will bring up a DIALOG SHOWN AT END OF THIS WEBPAGE where you double click and enter “-Xmx256M” to increase the memory. Then select OK and Apply, Technically you should be able to increase it to -Xmx512M but we found some systems that would not work. If something doesn’t work, the applet won’t open and it just puts a little X marker where the window should be. REBOOT or RESTART your computer.
TOO MANY OPEN WINDOWS will use up the heap memory so to free
up memory, close the browser windows after viewing the applets.
Figure X: This is where you can increase your Heap memory after selecting the JAVA
Icon in the Control Panel folder.