Re: Mathematica loop question
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- Subject: [mg118397] Re: Mathematica loop question
- From: Patrick Scheibe <pscheibe at trm.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:51:31 -0400 (EDT)
Hi,
if you're just interested in the pattern you could create a simpler one
and rotate it:
With[{num = 10, m = RotationMatrix[3/4 Pi]},
Graphics[{Table[Disk[m.{i, j}, 0.25], {i, 0, num}, {j, 0, i}]}]
]
Cheers
Patrick
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 04:43 -0400, Sol Lederman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm teaching myself Mathematica.
>
> I've plotted this:
>
> Graphics[{
> Blue,
> Disk[{5, 10}, .25],
> Disk[{4, 9}, .25],
> Disk[{6, 9}, .25],
> Disk[{3, 8}, .25],
> Disk[{5, 8}, .25],
> Disk[{7, 8}, .25],
> Disk[{2, 7}, .25],
> Disk[{4, 7}, .25],
> Disk[{6, 7}, .25],
> Disk[{8, 7}, .25],
> Disk[{1, 6}, .25],
> Disk[{3, 6}, .25],
> Disk[{5, 6}, .25],
> Disk[{7, 6}, .25],
> Disk[{9, 6}, .25]
> }]
>
>
> Is there an elegant way to write this without a bunch of Disk statements?
> I'm imagining that this would be a double nested loop.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Sol
>