You might want to look into Chris Granger's work on component entity systems in clojurescript: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/12/11/anatomy-of-a-knockout/
Light Table went on to have a similar component-entity layout internally. On Jan 10, 2018 6:12 PM, "Michael Nardell" <nard...@ucsc.edu> wrote: > Greetings :: I am new to Clojure and have not really gotten my feet wet > with Clojurescript yet. The advice I always give someone when leaning > programming or a new language is to pick a project that they are interested > in and dive in. For me, that project would be creating educational > simulations that model complex systems. > > Part of my challenge with this as a project is that it is leading me > towards programming (at least partially) with objects to model the discrete > components in these systems. Arguably simulations are one of the domains > where objects are the right paradigm. The question I pose to the group is > how to work with objects in Clojure, in a manner that "goes with the grain" > of the language. Perhaps best to ground my question in a concrete example: > > I had created simulations / visualizations of Hubel and Wiesel's model of > the center-surround receptive fields in the retina. My past simulations I > used a collection of objects to model photo receptors (i.e. rods/cones), > horizontal, bi-polar cells, connected together to represent the behavior of > either on-center or off-center receptive fields. Kind of a simple neural > network. Would like to preserve the object nature of nodes in the network, > since the nodes have state and should be represented by graphics in a gui. > Ultimately I would like to move toward a "constructor kit" approach that > would allow students and teachers to model and simulate a whole variety of > various systems that can be represented as a network of processes with > feed-forward and feed-back connections. > > Interested to know of any useful examples and guidance for doing objects > the Clojure/Clojurescript way. Certainly one of the examples I want to look > at closely is the Ant Hill that Rich Hickey demonstrated. > > As is the case with a neophyte - any advice is well appreciated. > > Mike > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
