Re: Progressive Plotting
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- Subject: [mg9141] Re: Progressive Plotting
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:01:56 -0400
- Organization: University of Western Australia
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> i'm writing a program that will plot things as it progresses.
> i would like to keep the current plot, and then when the new data is
> ready, replace it with a plot of the new data. (ie--i don't want a
> million graphics windows if i do a million calculations). can this be
> done?
Yes. MIYAJI Chikara <miyaji at taiiku.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote something
called QDWindow that does this using MathLink (but this package
presently only runs on Macintoshes because it uses QuickDraw
functionality):
QDWindow, a realtime Graphics Tool for Cellular Automata.
Outline: QDWindow is a sample program in the author's book. It enable to
draw
two dimensional cellular automata state in realtime.
For example, life game's evolution can be seen in realtime.
Functions:
(1)OpenWindow: open window for realtime graphics.
(2)CloseWindow: close an window.
(3)SetPort: set a graphics destination to an window.
(4)GetPort: get a current port.
(5)MoveTo: move current window's pen to argument position.
(6)LineTo: draw a line from current position to arguments
position.
(7)CopyBits: draw a bitmap acording to the value of argument
table.
(8)CopyPix: draw a pixel on window adording to RasterArray
argument.
The book
Network Programming with Mathematica
which documents a whole suite of MathLink functions by MIYAJI Chikara is
to be published by Cambridge University Press but I do not know when it
will be published.
Cheers,
Paul
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