Re: How to roll up multiple Line calls into a loop
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- Subject: [mg118349] Re: How to roll up multiple Line calls into a loop
- From: Helen Read <readhpr at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:51:28 -0400 (EDT)
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On 4/22/2011 5:41 AM, Sol Lederman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to Mathematica.
>
> I have the following bit of graphics:
>
> Graphics[{
> Line[{{0, 10}, {1, 0}}],
> Line[{{0, 9}, {2, 0}}],
> Line[{{0, 8}, {3, 0}}],
> Line[{{0, 7}, {4, 0}}],
> Line[{{0, 6}, {5, 0}}],
> Line[{{0, 5}, {6, 0}}],
> Line[{{0, 4}, {7, 0}}],
> Line[{{0, 3}, {8, 0}}],
> Line[{{0, 2}, {9, 0}}],
> Line[{{0, 1}, {10, 0}}],
> }]
>
>
> I want to simplify it to do some sort of iteration to compute the end points
> of the lines. I can do this easily in a variety of procedural languages but
> I haven't yet grokked how Mathematica would do this.
>
>
> Would someone please show me the short way, I imagine using Table somehow?
lines = Table[{{0, 11 - n}, {n, 0}}, {n, 10}];
Graphics[Line[lines]]
--
Helen Read
University of Vermont