Hi Folks,
I have been struggling with Morphic animation.
I would like to animate some different algorithms that compute
solutions to various puzzles. (It is for an introduction to Squeak for
high school students.)
Normally animations in Morphic are done by defining the #step method.
But in this case I want to animate various stages of an algorithm. I
cannot split the algorithm into bits and pieces that can be evaluated
by #step without destroying the algorithm. I have tried to update the
morph from within the algorithm (i.e., by changing the color of
various submorphs) but this does not work. I only see the final state.
Can anyone tell me if what I want to do is even possible? Any
pointers to some existing application that does this?
If you want to see what I am trying to do, look at
Mazemorph>>shortestPath in http://www.squeaksource.com/SOI.html
MazeMorph soi openInWorld; shortestPath
There is a simple BoardMorph made up of CellMorphs, specialized to
search through a maze and find the shortest path. I would like to
animate the depth-first searching, but I can only display the final
state. There are other algorithms I would like to animate, but this
is a typical case.
(I thought of evaluating the algorithm as a separate process, with
pauses at key points, and using #step to continue to the next pause,
but that seems like overkill to me. There must be an easier way ...)
- on
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