Unusual use of mathematica
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg17437] Unusual use of mathematica
- From: "Barthelet, Luc" <lucb at ea.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 04:43:48 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I have been running a web site that behaves like a database with the help of mathematica. You can check it out at http://www.simcity.com/exchange/exchange.html Users are sending their cities by email. and an automatic process in SimCity enables us to create the thumbnails views of the cities as BMP I then use Mathematica to build a database structure for the cities, extract the zoning losange and other info from the file and making a jpg out of it. It also automatically creates JPG out of the BMPs. It then uses template to generate 48 html files. This number is variable and will increase automatically with a larger database. It mostly uses StringReplace to do this. The 48 files represent about 15 different ways to extract information from the database, from top 10 and worst 10 list, to complete lists for cities and terrain. The flexibility of mathematica has made it very easy to achive two things: 1- huge number of iterations to make the site interesting 2- streamlining the daily update process I am currently evaluating the use of sendmail to automatically email the participant of the position of their city in the top 10 lists. hope you find that fun, Luc Barthelet General Manager Maxis