Design Deficiency in Manipulate AutorunSequencing?
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- Subject: [mg79369] Design Deficiency in Manipulate AutorunSequencing?
- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:20:12 -0400 (EDT)
Manipulate has a very nice feature called Autorun, which can be activated from the overall control button and menu. There is an AutorunSequencing option that exerts control over the order that various parameters are run through. However the documentation states: "Each variable always starts from the initial value specified for it, and returns to the same value." That is the catch because I think quite often one would want the parameters to run in a different mode. In this mode the first slider would run from the minimum to the maximum value and then stick at the maximum. Then the next slider would run from the minimum to maximum value and stick at the maximum, etc. The values would then reset to their initial values only after all controllers had run. This kind of behavior would be useful, for example, if we wanted to show the affect of a sequence of Euler angle rotations on an object. -- David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/