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- From: mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu (Michael Levin)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys,sci.systems
- Subject: Do scientists or engineers need a program like this?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.113143.17605@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:31:41 GMT
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- I may have a computer program that does something, and I am
- wondering if any scientists or engineers want one. Here's what it
- does: Suppose you had a number of point-sources of some force, and you
- wanted to know for a particular distribution of those sources, where
- each source had some specified strength, and the force it "emmitted"
- could have any character (i.e., it's decay with distance didn't have
- to be a square law, but instead could be any arbitrary expression
- involving distance). The number, positions, strengths, and force types
- of each of the sources would be enterred at run-time. The program
- would then produce a plot of the whole plane, where each point was
- colored in such a way that the color expressed what the total (sum,
- due to all the sources) force on a particle at that point was. This
- would allow you to set up an arbitrary distribution of sources, and
- see what the force-field looked like.
- Additionally, the program would work in reverse. You could enter
- the force-field shape that you wanted, and the program would find a
- distribution of point sources that produced that specified field. So,
- is anyone interested? If you have any ideas, comments, or potential
- applications (ones I've thought of include gravitational,
- electromagnetic, and acoustical models), please email to
- mlevin@husc8.harvard.edu.
- P.S. sorry if this is inappropriate for some of the groups, but I
- didn't know who may be interested.
-
- Mike Levin
-