Re: that's enough

Jack Uretsky wrote:
> Thanks.  Sounds great.  Do you have any recollection of where and when 
> you posted? 

On this list July 20th -- here it is:

Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 18:18 -0500, Jack Uretsky wrote:
> 
>> In answer to your question,
>> this is a simulation.  The "events" are program generated; I'm trying to 
>> approximate a Poisson process, so the times between event pairs are 
>> exponentially distributed.
> 
> Hi!
> 
> It seems to me that you are consistently trying out wrong tools for the
> job. Maybe next time you should really start by explaining what you want
> to achieve in the first place?
> 
> What you really need is pygame. It is a simple Python SDL wrapper, that
> is absolutely great to use for simulations visualization. This is the
> code you need to get what you want:
> 
>         # Center window on the screen
>         os.environ["SDL_VIDEO_CENTERED"] = "1"
>         pygame.init()
>         pygame.display.set_mode(self.screen_size, 0)
>         screen = pygame.display.get_surface()
> 
>         # CYCLE
> 
>             # Create the backgound
>             background =  pygame.image.load(fullpath)
>             background = background.convert()
> 
>             # Display the background
>             screen.blit(background, (0, 0))
>             pygame.display.flip()
> 
> I have written a 2D n-body problem simulator that I used as teaching
> material for a Python course this spring, so if you want a more complete
> example I can send it to you, but either way, I think it's better off
> this list.
>  

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