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11 Aug 2024 11:17:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Calculating patricle field density  
From: Axel Hecht
Date: 30 Jul 1999 07:52:19
Message: <37A191C6.51BA01AE@numerik.uni-kiel.de>
Ken wrote:
> 
> Peter Popov wrote:
> >
> > How do I calculate the density of a particle field in some point in
> > space? Suppose that the positions of all particles are stored in an
> > array.
> >
> > Peter Popov
> > ICQ: 15002700
> 
>  Just for kicks you might take a look:
> http://www.sbox.tu-graz.ac.at/home/a/ahi/particle-system.html
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/links.htm

Hi,
I have one question:
Any idea why the particles are converted to blobs by Andreas?

Just a point to add, Peter and I continue the mail/news-mixed
conversation:

Calculations like these can be done with octave.
http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/
It's GPL (Peter, you can drop the price of Matlab) and a Matlab clone.
Nice features:
Vectorisation of almost any operation. You can do the integration of one
timestep for all particles at a time, for example.
Nice as well is the vectorized sprintf. It gives you a formatted output
as often as your input suffices. A one-liner just to convert all
particles to blobs.
So much hype is enough...

Axel


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