Re: updating a simulation within Manipulate.
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- Subject: [mg130086] Re: updating a simulation within Manipulate.
- From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 06:24:23 -0500 (EST)
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FYI;
On V 9.0.1 on windows, when I run the code, (checked the `keepWalking` box, then
I get flood of these errors on the console:
RandomVariate::realprm: Parameter bias at position 1 in NormalDistribution[bias,1] is expected to be real. >>
On 3/7/2013 9:48 PM, W Craig Carter wrote:
>
> randomStep[bias_, stepList_] :=
> Module[{angle = RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[bias, 1]]},
> Join[stepList, {Last[stepList] + {Cos[angle], Sin[angle]}}]]
>
> walkerGraphic[stepList_, range_] :=
> Graphics[GraphicsComplex[stepList, Disk /@ Range[Length[stepList]]],
> PlotRange -> range {{-1, 1}, {-1, 1}}]
>
> DynamicModule[
> {walkerPath = {{0, 0}}},
> Manipulate[
> If[keepWalking, (* kludge warning---testing for If[True...] seems inefficient *)
> walkerPath = randomStep[bias, walkerPath]
> ];
> If[reset,
> reset = False; keepWalking = False;
> walkerPath = {{0, 0}}
> ];
> walkerGraphic[walkerPath, range],
> {{keepWalking, False}, {True, False}},
> {{reset, False}, {True, False}},
> Delimiter,
> {{range, 20}, 0, 100},
> {{a, 0}, -Pi, Pi,
> AngularGauge[##, ImageSize -> 160 ,
> ScaleOrigin -> {{-4 Pi, 4 Pi}, 1}] &}
> ]
> ]
>
>
>
> W Craig Carter
> Professor of Materials Science, MIT
>