Wow! This is cool!
I must admit I do not get how the connections between MetaPost and Lua
works, but it seem to work fine.
Challenge: To do this for a more complicated closed and self-intersecting
curve like the
Bernoulli lemniscate, say (x^2+y^2)^2=x^2-y^2 (a good domain could be
-1.5<x<1.5 and -1<y<1).
/Mikael (who hopes for some support for these kind of things in MetaFun in
the future)
On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 12:03 AM Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 10/8/2018 11:25 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Oct 2018, Alan Braslau wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 16:00:10 -0400 (EDT)
> >> Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On 10/7/2018 7:14 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> >>>>> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 17:25:35 +0200
> >>>>> "Mikael P. Sundqvist" <mic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> ContourPlot[2 x^5 + x y + y^5 == 0, {x, 0, 2}, {y, -2, 1/2}]
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Brut force:
> >>>>> [...]
> >>>>>
> >>>> as this takes some time here's a cheat:
> >>>>
> >>>> \starttext
> >>>>
> >>>> \startbuffer[demo]
> >>>> [...]
> >>>> \stopbuffer
> >>>>
> >>>> \startTEXpage
> >>>> \typesetbuffer[demo]
> >>>> \stopTEXpage
> >>>> \stoptext
> >>>>
> >>>> a next run the already prepared buffer will be taken unles it has been
> >>>> changed.
> >>>
> >>> I thought that this will also be a good usecase of showing Lua+MP
> >>> interaction. I wrote the code below following the metafun manual, but
> >>> I cannot
> >>> get it to compile. What am I missing?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> You need to put it into the mp namespace:
> >
> > Thanks. The metafun manual is confusing in this regard and I got the
> > impression that any lua namespace could be used.
> >
> >> (then eps should be made a linear function of xi)
> >
> > Oh, I missed that. Thanks.
> >
> >> (and, indeed this is much faster than calculating in MP)
> >
> > Yes. Iterating over 10^6 values on a 1GHz computer should roughly take
>
> hm, my 3.4 gig laptop cpu needs 0.18 sec for the slightly more that i
> million steps ... it depends on the function too
>
> > 1ms in any reasonable programming language. Metapost for loops work with
> > macro expansion, which can be very expensive for large loops.
>
> generalized:
>
> \startluacode
> ----- abs = math.abs
>
> local contour = { }
> local data = { }
> local origin = { 0, 0 }
> local length = 0
>
> local function generate(f, x_min, x_max, y_min, y_max)
> local points = { }
> local length = 1000
> local eps = 1e-3
> local spe = -eps
> local n = 0
> local code = "return function(x,y) return " .. f .. " end"
> local action = load(code)
> if action then
> action = action()
> end
> for xi = x_min, x_max, (x_max - x_min)/length do
> for yi = y_min, y_max, (y_max - y_min)/length do
> -- if abs(action(xi,yi)) < eps then -- 10% gain with:
> local v = action(xi,yi)
> if v < eps and v > spe then
> n = n + 1
> points[n] = { xi, yi }
> end
> end
> end
> return points, n
> end
>
> function mp.Countour(...)
> data, length = generate(...)
> end
>
> function mp.ContourN()
> mp.print(length)
> end
>
> function mp.ContourPoint(i)
> mp.pair(data[i] or origin)
> end
>
> function mp.ContourPath(f,...)
> if f then
> data, length = generate(f,...)
> end
> mp.path(length > 0 and data or origin)
> end
>
> \stopluacode
>
> \starttext
> \startMPpage[instance=doublefun]
> % lua.mp.Countour("2*x^5 + x*y + y^5", 0, 2, -1, 0.5) ;
> % draw lua.mp.ContourPath() withpen pencircle scaled .01 ;
> draw lua.mp.ContourPath("2*x^5 + x*y + y^5", 0, 2, -1, 0.5)
> withpen pencircle scaled .01 ;
> setbounds currentpicture to (0,-2) -- (2,-2) -- (2,.5) --
> (0,.5) -- cycle ;
> currentpicture := currentpicture xsized 5cm ;
> picture pic ; pic := currentpicture ;
> drawarrow llcorner pic -- lrcorner pic ;
> drawarrow llcorner pic -- ulcorner pic ;
> label.rt ("$x$", lrcorner pic) ;
> label.top("$y$", ulcorner pic) ;
> for x=0 step .5 until 2 :
> label.bot(decimal x,(x/2)[llcorner pic,lrcorner pic]) ;
> endfor ;
> for y=0 step .5 until 2.5 :
> label.lft(decimal (y-2),(y/2.5)[llcorner pic,ulcorner pic]) ;
> endfor ;
> \stopMPpage
> \stoptext
>
>
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