plotting many curves
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- Subject: [mg108311] plotting many curves
- From: eric g <eric.phys at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:57:27 -0500 (EST)
Hello Group, I know I should avoid For cycles in mathematica, but I am C person... how to do this without For (*--------initialization------------------*) n = 10^2; xoi = RandomReal[{-10, 10}, {n}]; yoi = RandomReal[{-10, 10}, {n}]; ri = RandomReal[{0, 10}, {n}]; ----------------------------------- (* n=10^2; Clear[circles]; circles = Table[Null, {n}]; For[i = 1, i <= n, i++, circles[[i]] = {xoi[[i]] + ri[[i]]*Cos[t], yoi[[i]] + ri[[i]]*Sin[t]}] (*---------------displaying--------------------*) ParametricPlot[circles, {t, 0, 2 Pi}, PlotStyle -> Black]