Re: How to roll up multiple Line calls into a loop
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- Subject: [mg118348] Re: How to roll up multiple Line calls into a loop
- From: "Christopher O. Young" <cy56 at comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:51:17 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <iorih5$o6t$1@smc.vnet.net>
On 4/22/11 5:41 AM, in article iorih5$o6t$1 at smc.vnet.net, "Sol Lederman" <sol.lederman at gmail.com> 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? The following will do it: Graphics[ Table[Line[{{0, 10 - k + 1}, {k, 0}}], {k, 1, 10}] ] I keep wishing there were some way to do this using a replacement rule or an iteration specifier tacked on to the end of the line.