3D Viewer hangs Fiji when rendering an empty stack

[ctrueden]

From @mhl:

You can reproduce this with the following steps:

• Go to File -> New and create an 8-bit stack, 200x200x10, filled with black
• Run Plugins -> 3D Viewer, and leave the options at their defaults

Then I see about 6 CPUs maxing out for about 20 seconds, then just a single CPU is at 100% and Fiji becomes unresponsive, and I have to kill it with SIGKILL. Adding a single blob of non-zero pixels in the image stops this from happening.

It's useful to be able to test with empty images sometimes - for example, people often send me .traces files for SNT without the images, so it's easiest to construct an empty image of the right size to work with.

Migrated-From: http://fiji.sc/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=314

[ctrueden]

Three years later, I can still reproduce this bug on my OS X 10.9.3 system.

[mynameisandres]

Running into the same problem, really wish there was a solution to this. I simply switched over to Clear Volume.