Dear haskell-cafe patrons,
I've been working through an exercise in Hudak's _The Haskell School of
Expression_ (ex. 3.2, creating a snowflake fractal image), and am seeing
some strange drawing behavior that I'm hoping somebody can shed some
light on.
My initial solution is below (it requires HGL for Graphics.SOE):
module Main where
import Graphics.SOE
main =
runGraphics (
do w <- openWindow "Snowflake Fractal" (600, 600)
fillStar w 300 125 256 (cycle $ enumFrom Blue)
spaceClose w
)
spaceClose w =
do k <- getKey w
if k == ' '
then closeWindow w
else spaceClose w
minSize = 2 :: Int
fillStar :: Window -> Int -> Int -> Int -> [Color] -> IO ()
fillStar w x y h clrs | h <= minSize
= return ()
fillStar w x y h clrs
= do drawInWindow w
(withColor (head clrs)
(polygon [t1p1,t1p2,t1p3,t1p1]))
drawInWindow w
(withColor (head clrs)
(polygon [t2p1,t2p2,t2p3,t2p1]))
sequence_ $ map recur [t1p1,t1p2,t1p3,t2p1,t2p2,t2p3]
where tanPiOverSix = tan(pi/6) :: Float
halfSide = truncate $ tanPiOverSix * fromIntegral h
hFrag = truncate $ tanPiOverSix * tanPiOverSix * fromIntegral h
(t1p1,t1p2,t1p3) =
((x, y), (x-halfSide, y+h),(x+halfSide, y+h))
(t2p1,t2p2,t2p3) =
((x-halfSide, y+hFrag),(x, y+h+hFrag),(x+halfSide, y+hFrag))
reVert y = y - ((h - hFrag) `div` 3)
recur pnt =
fillStar w (fst pnt) (reVert (snd pnt)) (h`div`3) (tail clrs)
This basically works, in that it does exactly what I want in Hugs, but
GHC sometimes pauses partway through rendering, and does not continue
rendering until I type any key (except space, which exits) or
unfocus/refocus the window, or move the mouse pointer across the window.
Sometimes, more often the first time in a GHCI session, it renders
completely with no pauses, and it seems to pause more and more if I
evaluate main, then close the window, evaluate again in the same GHCI
session, repeatedly. The same pausing behavior is observed in a
GHC-compiled executable.
When the problem occurs, there is a message to the console that says:
"thread blocked indefinitely".
Versioning info:
CPU: Pentium M
OS: Gentoo GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18
GCC: 4.1.1
GHC: 6.6
HGL: 3.1
HUGS: March 2005
[all software compiled from source using gentoo ebuilds]
Is anybody else familiar with this behavior? If not, any suggestions as
to where I should file this as a potential bug? GHC? HGL? Both? Elsewhere?
Thanks in advance for any information.
Calvin
p.s. Any stylistic or other comments about the code welcome too.
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