This sounds like an interesting problem, but as you say, probably one that is not compatible with Vergil. It would be easy enough (and probably quite a bit of fun) to create a distinct visualization tool on top of diva to show these cells. You could, for example, show actors as small circles (you will have to place them), and not show connections, but rather have connections implied by proximate placing.
Note that the Ptolemy kernel should have no difficulty with a model that creates actors and connections while it runs. Edward >From: Marco Antoniotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Keeping track of different "instances". >Date: 21 Jan 2002 17:28:36 -0500 > > >Hi, > >I am investigating the use of Ptolemy to simulate biological systems. > >Of course there are several question regarding MoC's which I am >sweeping under the carpet, but, apart from that, I have one >question I'd like to ask. > >Suppose I want to simulate the process of cell division (nothing >fancy, just have some internal timer that eventually causes the cell >to either divide or die - this is a good enough approximation). > >I'd like a suggestion about what would be the best way to go ahead and >put this into Ptolemy II. > >I am asking this because it is fairly obvious to me to write down a >set of equations that do model the process at hand, yet from a "low >level computer scientist view", it'd be nice to actually model a cell >division as a > > newCell = new Cell(); > >My (so far very superficial) understanding is that this is not >something that you can easily achieve in Ptolemy II, especially using >the Virgil GUI. > >Is that the case? Do I have other alternatives? > >Thanks > >Cheers > >- -- >Marco Antoniotti ======================================================== >NYU Courant Bioinformatics Group tel. +1 - 212 - 998 3488 >719 Broadway 12th Floor fax +1 - 212 - 995 4122 >New York, NY 10003, USA http://bioinformatics.cat.nyu.edu > "Hello New York! We'll do what we can!" > Bill Murray in `Ghostbusters'. > >------- End of Forwarded Message > >_______________________________________________ >Ptolemy maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.gigascale.org/ptolemy/listinfo/ptolemy ------------ Edward A. Lee, Professor 518 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 phone: 510-642-0455, fax: 510-642-2739 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted to the ptolemy-hackers mailing list. Please send administrative mail for this list to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
