Re: Presenting Results

[nicholas robert bruhn]

to all:
 you might not know this, but you are sending all these stupid results to
university of illinois students that don't give a fuck about  
cyllene.uwa.edu.  check your forward list and remove any @uiuc.edu.
thanks. 

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Matt  Aylward wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> > SCHREIBER,DARREN MATTHEW wrote:
> > > 
> > > Here's a basic question... how do we present results?
> > 
> > Good question!
> > 
> > I'll add to it: Who has experience, positive or negative, with pasting
> > images from their Swarm windows into a journal article? We just changed
> > our raster so it shows shades of grey instead of colors, to see if it
> > would look better in print than colors converted to greyscale by the
> > printer (probably not).
> 
> While writing my honours thesis, I needed to present a lot of SWARM results. 
> To
> present raster and agent population results I used GRI ( see:
> http://www.phys.ocean.dal.ca/~kelley/gri/ )
> I wrote several GRI scripts which processed raw SWARM raster output 
> directly into figures, and population data into graphs.  I could then process
> the output from my simulations into document quality output in a few seconds.
> This approach meant that as I developed the model and tuned the simulation
> parameters, I could reproduce my figures automically in seconds and re-run
> LaTeX  on my thesis. (even updating the data presentation scripts in the
> appendices).The attached postscript files were produces in this way with the
> attached GRI scripts.
> 
> > The power of the animation window to transfer information and
> > understanding (and to entertain and mesmerize) is very hard to give up,
> > especially after you're run your sim in front of a room full of people
> > and they all thought it was cool and consequently got excited about your
> > work.
> 
> To create portable animations I found Yorick useful.
> (see: 
> ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/Yorick/yorick-ad.html)
> Again, I wrote a script to accept raw Swarm output in running animations.
> This task was embarrassingly simple, as shown by the attached yorick script 
> and
> colour pallettes.
> The great thing with yorick is that is is available free for Unix/Linux,
> Windows95/98/NT, Macintosh and others. Plus it is a very fast and powerful
> mathematical language that is easy for C programmers.
> 
> If anyone wants more info about any of this, just ask.
> 
> Cheers,
> Matt
> 
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> Matt Aylward, Depts of Botany and Geography,
>    The University of Western Australia
>      email: address@hidden
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>   ====May the SWARM be with you====
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