Oops. Multiply scalar by scalar by array may crash Softimage


While building an ICE tree version of this parametric equation
parametric_equation_loxodrome
I discovered how to crash Softimage 2014 SP2 by doing a Show Values on the output of a Multiply node:
Multiply_crash
The key is that you have to set and then get the values later, and the array has to be the final term in the multiplication. Somehow this intuitively feels like something where things could wrong…

Here’s a clearer picture from Softimage 2014 SP1, which doesn’t stop working immediately:
Multiply_crash_2014sp1

I tested as far back as 2013 SP1, and they all crashed.