[Image-SIG] that's enough

[Jack Uretsky]

Thanks.  Sounds great.  Do you have any recollection of where and when you 
posted?  I've googled pygame with Zaytsev, and scanned all the archive 
titles for the year under Zaytsev, but I need further hints.  Turns out 
that pygame is on my Mac.
 			Regards.
 				Jack


"Trust me.  I have a lot of experience at this."
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 		just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley




On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Yes, this sounds like a perfect use case for pygame. Just set up a
> screen, then run your main loop and when a new state is calculated, blit
> the corresponding JPEG to the screen.
>
> I've already posted the code that you need to implement this setting.
>
> -- 
> Sincerely yours,
> Yury V. Zaytsev
>
> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 13:21 -0500, Jack Uretsky wrote:
>> Hi-
>>  	Thanks very much.  My "more detailed explanation" seems to have
>> confused the issue. Here is a more detailed, more detailed explaation:
>>  	The principal program calculates the state of a 3-"spin" assembly,
>> each spin can either be up or down - there are, accordingly, 8 possible
>> states.  The spins "flip" singly and randomly, as described in the Cornell
>> ArXiV 0912.4068 (gen phys).  I have prepared .jpg's showing the 8 possible
>> configurations.  When the principal program calculates a new
>> configuration, I would like to show the relevant .jpg.
>>  	There are undoubtedly a plethora of ways to illustrate the process
>> I am discussing.  Did I choose one that is too difficult for a simple
>> python progam?
>>  			Regards,
>>  				Jack
>>
>>
>> "Trust me.  I have a lot of experience at this."
>>  		General Custer's unremembered message to his men,
>>  		just before leading them into the Little Big Horn Valley
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 18:18 -0500, Jack Uretsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> In answer to your question,
>>>> this is a simulation.  The "events" are program generated; I'm trying to
>>>> approximate a Poisson process, so the times between event pairs are
>>>> exponentially distributed.
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> It seems to me that you are consistently trying out wrong tools for the
>>> job. Maybe next time you should really start by explaining what you want
>>> to achieve in the first place?
>>>
>>> What you really need is pygame. It is a simple Python SDL wrapper, that
>>> is absolutely great to use for simulations visualization. This is the
>>> code you need to get what you want:
>>>
>>>        # Center window on the screen
>>>        os.environ["SDL_VIDEO_CENTERED"] = "1"
>>>        pygame.init()
>>>        pygame.display.set_mode(self.screen_size, 0)
>>>        screen = pygame.display.get_surface()
>>>
>>>        # CYCLE
>>>
>>>            # Create the backgound
>>>            background =  pygame.image.load(fullpath)
>>>            background = background.convert()
>>>
>>>            # Display the background
>>>            screen.blit(background, (0, 0))
>>>            pygame.display.flip()
>>>
>>> I have written a 2D n-body problem simulator that I used as teaching
>>> material for a Python course this spring, so if you want a more complete
>>> example I can send it to you, but either way, I think it's better off
>>> this list.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sincerely yours,
>>> Yury V. Zaytsev
>>>
>
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