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<h1 id="___sec0">A first glimpse of Pysketcher </h1>

<p>
Formulation of physical problems makes heavy use of <em>principal sketches</em>
such as the one in Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:inclinedplane">1</a>.
This particular sketch illustrates the classical mechanics problem
of a rolling wheel on an inclined plane.
The figure
is made up many individual elements: a rectangle
filled with a pattern (the inclined plane), a hollow circle with color
(the wheel), arrows with labels (the \( N \) and \( Mg \) forces, and the \( x \)
axis), an angle with symbol \( \theta \), and a dashed line indicating the
starting location of the wheel.

<p>
Drawing software and plotting programs can produce such figures quite
easily in principle, but the amount of details the user needs to
control with the mouse can be substantial. Software more tailored to
producing sketches of this type would work with more convenient
abstractions, such as circle, wall, angle, force arrow, axis, and so
forth. And as soon we start <em>programming</em> to construct the figure we
get a range of other powerful tools at disposal. For example, we can
easily translate and rotate parts of the figure and make an animation
that illustrates the physics of the problem.
Programming as a superior alternative to interactive drawing is
the mantra of this section.

<p>
<center> <!-- figure -->
<hr class="figure">
<center><p class="caption">Figure 1:  Sketch of a physics problem. <div id="sketcher:fig:inclinedplane"></div> </p></center>
<p><img src="fig-tut/wheel_on_inclined_plane.png" align="bottom" width=400></p>
</center>

<h2 id="___sec1">Basic construction of sketches </h2>

<p>
Before attacking real-life sketches as in Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:inclinedplane">1</a>
we focus on the significantly simpler drawing shown
in Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:vehicle0">2</a>.  This toy sketch consists of
several elements: two circles, two rectangles, and a &quot;ground&quot; element.

<p>
<center> <!-- figure -->
<hr class="figure">
<center><p class="caption">Figure 2:  Sketch of a simple figure. <div id="sketcher:fig:vehicle0"></div> </p></center>
<p><img src="fig-tut/vehicle0_dim.png" align="bottom" width=600></p>
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<p>
When the sketch is defined in terms of computer code, it is natural to
parameterize geometric features, such as the radius of the wheel (\( R \)),
the center point of the left wheel (\( w_1 \)), as well as the height (\( H \)) and
length (\( L \)) of the main part. The simple vehicle in
Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:vehicle0">2</a> is quickly drawn in almost any interactive
tool. However, if we want to change the radius of the wheels, you need a
sophisticated drawing tool to avoid redrawing the whole figure, while
in computer code this is a matter of changing the \( R \) parameter and
rerunning the program.
For example, Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:vehicle0b">3</a> shows
a variation of the drawing in
Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:vehicle0">2</a> obtained by just setting
\( R=0.5 \), \( L=5 \), \( H=2 \), and \( R=2 \). Being able
to quickly change geometric sizes is key to many problem settings in
physics and engineering, but then a program must define the geometry.

<p>
<center> <!-- figure -->
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<center><p class="caption">Figure 3:  Redrawing a figure with other geometric parameters. <div id="sketcher:fig:vehicle0b"></div> </p></center>
<p><img src="fig-tut/vehicle_v2.png" align="bottom" width=500></p>
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<h3 id="___sec2">Basic drawing </h3>

<p>
A typical program creating these five elements is shown next.
After importing the <code>pysketcher</code> package, the first task is always to
define a coordinate system:

<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">from</span> <span style="color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold">pysketcher</span> <span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">import</span> <span style="color: #666666">*</span>

drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_coordinate_system(
    xmin<span style="color: #666666">=0</span>, xmax<span style="color: #666666">=10</span>, ymin<span style="color: #666666">=-1</span>, ymax<span style="color: #666666">=8</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>
Instead of working with lengths expressed by specific numbers it is
highly recommended to use variables to parameterize lengths as
this makes it easier to change dimensions later.
Here we introduce some key lengths for the radius of the wheels,
distance between the wheels, etc.:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">R <span style="color: #666666">=</span> <span style="color: #666666">1</span>    <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># radius of wheel</span>
L <span style="color: #666666">=</span> <span style="color: #666666">4</span>    <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># distance between wheels</span>
H <span style="color: #666666">=</span> <span style="color: #666666">2</span>    <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># height of vehicle body</span>
w_1 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> <span style="color: #666666">5</span>  <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># position of front wheel</span>
drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_coordinate_system(xmin<span style="color: #666666">=0</span>, xmax<span style="color: #666666">=</span>w_1 <span style="color: #666666">+</span> <span style="color: #666666">2*</span>L <span style="color: #666666">+</span> <span style="color: #666666">3*</span>R,
                                   ymin<span style="color: #666666">=-1</span>, ymax<span style="color: #666666">=2*</span>R <span style="color: #666666">+</span> <span style="color: #666666">3*</span>H)
</pre></div>
<p>
With the drawing area in place we can make the first <code>Circle</code> object
in an intuitive fashion:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">wheel1 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> Circle(center<span style="color: #666666">=</span>(w_1, R), radius<span style="color: #666666">=</span>R)
</pre></div>
<p>
to change dimensions later.

<p>
To translate the geometric information about the <code>wheel1</code> object to
instructions for the plotting engine (in this case Matplotlib), one calls the
<code>wheel1.draw()</code>. To display all drawn objects, one issues
<code>drawing_tool.display()</code>. The typical steps are hence:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">wheel1 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> Circle(center<span style="color: #666666">=</span>(w_1, R), radius<span style="color: #666666">=</span>R)
wheel1<span style="color: #666666">.</span>draw()

<span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># Define other objects and call their draw() methods</span>
drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>display()
drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>savefig(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;tmp.png&#39;</span>)  <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># store picture</span>
</pre></div>
<p>
The next wheel can be made by taking a copy of <code>wheel1</code> and
translating the object to the right according to a
displacement vector \( (L,0) \):
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">wheel2 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> wheel1<span style="color: #666666">.</span>copy()
wheel2<span style="color: #666666">.</span>translate((L,<span style="color: #666666">0</span>))
</pre></div>
<p>
The two rectangles are also made in an intuitive way:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">under <span style="color: #666666">=</span> Rectangle(lower_left_corner<span style="color: #666666">=</span>(w_1<span style="color: #666666">-2*</span>R, <span style="color: #666666">2*</span>R),
                  width<span style="color: #666666">=2*</span>R <span style="color: #666666">+</span> L <span style="color: #666666">+</span> <span style="color: #666666">2*</span>R, height<span style="color: #666666">=</span>H)
over  <span style="color: #666666">=</span> Rectangle(lower_left_corner<span style="color: #666666">=</span>(w_1, <span style="color: #666666">2*</span>R <span style="color: #666666">+</span> H),
                  width<span style="color: #666666">=2.5*</span>R, height<span style="color: #666666">=1.25*</span>H)
</pre></div>

<h3 id="___sec3">Groups of objects </h3>

<p>
Instead of calling the <code>draw</code> method of every object, we can
group objects and call <code>draw</code>, or perform other operations, for
the whole group. For example, we may collect the two wheels
in a <code>wheels</code> group and the <code>over</code> and <code>under</code> rectangles
in a <code>body</code> group. The whole vehicle is a composition
of its <code>wheels</code> and <code>body</code> groups. The code goes like
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">wheels  <span style="color: #666666">=</span> Composition({<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel1&#39;</span>: wheel1, <span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel2&#39;</span>: wheel2})
body    <span style="color: #666666">=</span> Composition({<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;under&#39;</span>: under, <span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;over&#39;</span>: over})

vehicle <span style="color: #666666">=</span> Composition({<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>: wheels, <span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;body&#39;</span>: body})
</pre></div>
<p>
The ground is illustrated by an object of type <code>Wall</code>,
mostly used to indicate walls in sketches of mechanical systems.
A <code>Wall</code> takes the <code>x</code> and <code>y</code> coordinates of some curve,
and a <code>thickness</code> parameter, and creates a thick curve filled
with a simple pattern. In this case the curve is just a flat
line so the construction is made of two points on the
ground line (\( (w_1-L,0) \) and \( (w_1+3L,0) \)):
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">ground <span style="color: #666666">=</span> Wall(x<span style="color: #666666">=</span>[w_1 <span style="color: #666666">-</span> L, w_1 <span style="color: #666666">+</span> <span style="color: #666666">3*</span>L], y<span style="color: #666666">=</span>[<span style="color: #666666">0</span>, <span style="color: #666666">0</span>], thickness<span style="color: #666666">=-0.3*</span>R)
</pre></div>
<p>
The negative thickness makes the pattern-filled rectangle appear below
the defined line, otherwise it appears above.

<p>
We may now collect all the objects in a &quot;top&quot; object that contains
the whole figure:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">fig <span style="color: #666666">=</span> Composition({<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>: vehicle, <span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;ground&#39;</span>: ground})
fig<span style="color: #666666">.</span>draw()  <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># send all figures to plotting backend</span>
drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>display()
drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>savefig(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;tmp.png&#39;</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>
The <code>fig.draw()</code> call will visit
all subgroups, their subgroups,
and so forth in the hierarchical tree structure of
figure elements,
and call <code>draw</code> for every object.

<h3 id="___sec4">Changing line styles and colors </h3>

<p>
Controlling the line style, line color, and line width is
fundamental when designing figures. The <code>pysketcher</code>
package allows the user to control such properties in
single objects, but also set global properties that are
used if the object has no particular specification of
the properties. Setting the global properties are done like
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_linestyle(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;dashed&#39;</span>)
drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_linecolor(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;black&#39;</span>)
drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_linewidth(<span style="color: #666666">4</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>
At the object level the properties are specified in a similar
way:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">wheels<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_linestyle(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;solid&#39;</span>)
wheels<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_linecolor(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;red&#39;</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>
and so on.

<p>
Geometric figures can be specified as <em>filled</em>, either with a color or with a
special visual pattern:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># Set filling of all curves</span>
drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_filled_curves(color<span style="color: #666666">=</span><span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;blue&#39;</span>, pattern<span style="color: #666666">=</span><span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;/&#39;</span>)

<span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># Turn off filling of all curves</span>
drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_filled_curves(<span style="color: #008000">False</span>)

<span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># Fill the wheel with red color</span>
wheel1<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_filled_curves(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;red&#39;</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>
<!-- <a href="http://packages.python.org/ete2/" target="_self"><tt>http://packages.python.org/ete2/</tt></a> for visualizing tree structures! -->

<h3 id="___sec5">The figure composition as an object hierarchy </h3>

<p>
The composition of objects making up the figure
is hierarchical, similar to a family, where
each object has a parent and a number of children. Do a
<code>print fig</code> to display the relations:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">ground
    wall
vehicle
    body
        over
            rectangle
        under
            rectangle
    wheels
        wheel1
            arc
        wheel2
            arc
</pre></div>
<p>
The indentation reflects how deep down in the hierarchy (family)
we are.
This output is to be interpreted as follows:

<ul>
  <li> <code>fig</code> contains two objects, <code>ground</code> and <code>vehicle</code></li>
  <li> <code>ground</code> contains an object <code>wall</code></li>
  <li> <code>vehicle</code> contains two objects, <code>body</code> and <code>wheels</code></li>
  <li> <code>body</code> contains two objects, <code>over</code> and <code>under</code></li>
  <li> <code>wheels</code> contains two objects, <code>wheel1</code> and <code>wheel2</code></li>
</ul>

In this listing there are also objects not defined by the
programmer: <code>rectangle</code> and <code>arc</code>. These are of type <code>Curve</code>
and automatically generated by the classes <code>Rectangle</code> and <code>Circle</code>.

<p>
More detailed information can be printed by
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">print</span> fig<span style="color: #666666">.</span>show_hierarchy(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;std&#39;</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>
yielding the output
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">ground (Wall):
    wall (Curve): 4 coords fillcolor=&#39;white&#39; fillpattern=&#39;/&#39;
vehicle (Composition):
    body (Composition):
        over (Rectangle):
            rectangle (Curve): 5 coords
        under (Rectangle):
            rectangle (Curve): 5 coords
    wheels (Composition):
        wheel1 (Circle):
            arc (Curve): 181 coords
        wheel2 (Circle):
            arc (Curve): 181 coords
</pre></div>
<p>
Here we can see the class type for each figure object, how many
coordinates that are involved in basic figures (<code>Curve</code> objects), and
special settings of the basic figure (fillcolor, line types, etc.).
For example, <code>wheel2</code> is a <code>Circle</code> object consisting of an <code>arc</code>,
which is a <code>Curve</code> object consisting of 181 coordinates (the
points needed to draw a smooth circle). The <code>Curve</code> objects are the
only objects that really holds specific coordinates to be drawn.
The other object types are just compositions used to group
parts of the complete figure.

<p>
One can also get a graphical overview of the hierarchy of figure objects
that build up a particular figure <code>fig</code>.
Just call <code>fig.graphviz_dot('fig')</code> to produce a file <code>fig.dot</code> in
the <em>dot format</em>. This file contains relations between parent and
child objects in the figure and can be turned into an image,
as in Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:vehicle0:hier1">4</a>, by
running the <code>dot</code> program:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">Terminal&gt; dot -Tpng -o fig.png fig.dot
</pre></div>
<p>
<center> <!-- figure -->
<hr class="figure">
<center><p class="caption">Figure 4:  Hierarchical relation between figure objects. <div id="sketcher:fig:vehicle0:hier1"></div> </p></center>
<p><img src="fig-tut/vehicle0_hier1.png" align="bottom" width=500></p>
</center>

<p>
The call <code>fig.graphviz_dot('fig', classname=True)</code> makes a <code>fig.dot</code> file
where the class type of each object is also visible, see
Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:vehicle0:hier2">5</a>. The ability to write out the
object hierarchy or view it graphically can be of great help when
working with complex figures that involve layers of subfigures.

<p>
<center> <!-- figure -->
<hr class="figure">
<center><p class="caption">Figure 5:  Hierarchical relation between figure objects, including their class names. <div id="sketcher:fig:vehicle0:hier2"></div> </p></center>
<p><img src="fig-tut/Vehicle0_hier2.png" align="bottom" width=500></p>
</center>

<p>
Any of the objects can in the program be reached through their names, e.g.,
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>]
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>]
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel2&#39;</span>]
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel2&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;arc&#39;</span>]
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel2&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;arc&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>x  <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># x coords</span>
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel2&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;arc&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>y  <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># y coords</span>
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel2&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;arc&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>linestyle
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel2&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;arc&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>linetype
</pre></div>
<p>
Grabbing a part of the figure this way is handy for
changing properties of that part, for example, colors, line styles
(see Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:vehicle0:v2">6</a>):
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_filled_curves(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;blue&#39;</span>)
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_linewidth(<span style="color: #666666">6</span>)
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_linecolor(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;black&#39;</span>)

fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;body&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;under&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_filled_curves(<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;red&#39;</span>)

fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;body&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;over&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_filled_curves(pattern<span style="color: #666666">=</span><span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;/&#39;</span>)
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;body&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;over&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>set_linewidth(<span style="color: #666666">14</span>)
fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;body&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;over&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;rectangle&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>linewidth <span style="color: #666666">=</span> <span style="color: #666666">4</span>
</pre></div>
<p>
The last line accesses the <code>Curve</code> object directly, while the line above,
accesses the <code>Rectangle</code> object, which will then set the linewidth of
its <code>Curve</code> object, and other objects if it had any.
The result of the actions above is shown in Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:vehicle0:v2">6</a>.

<p>
<center> <!-- figure -->
<hr class="figure">
<center><p class="caption">Figure 6:  Left: Basic line-based drawing. Right: Thicker lines and filled parts. <div id="sketcher:fig:vehicle0:v2"></div> </p></center>
<p><img src="fig-tut/vehicle0.png" align="bottom" width=700></p>
</center>

<p>
We can also change position of parts of the figure and thereby make
animations, as shown next.

<h3 id="___sec6">Animation: translating the vehicle </h3>

<p>
Can we make our little vehicle roll? A first attempt will be to
fake rolling by just displacing all parts of the vehicle.
The relevant parts constitute the <code>fig['vehicle']</code> object.
This part of the figure can be translated, rotated, and scaled.
A translation along the ground means a translation in \( x \) direction,
say a length \( L \) to the right:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>translate((L,<span style="color: #666666">0</span>))
</pre></div>
<p>
You need to erase, draw, and display to see the movement:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>erase()
fig<span style="color: #666666">.</span>draw()
drawing_tool<span style="color: #666666">.</span>display()
</pre></div>
<p>
Without erasing, the old drawing of the vehicle will remain in
the figure so you get two vehicles. Without <code>fig.draw()</code> the
new coordinates of the vehicle will not be communicated to
the drawing tool, and without calling display the updated
drawing will not be visible.

<p>
A figure that moves in time is conveniently realized by the
function <code>animate</code>:
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">animate(fig, tp, action)
</pre></div>
<p>
Here, <code>fig</code> is the entire figure, <code>tp</code> is an array of
time points, and <code>action</code> is a user-specified function that changes
<code>fig</code> at a specific time point. Typically, <code>action</code> will move
parts of <code>fig</code>.

<p>
In the present case we can define the movement through a velocity
function <code>v(t)</code> and displace the figure <code>v(t)*dt</code> for small time
intervals <code>dt</code>. A possible velocity function is
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">def</span> <span style="color: #0000FF">v</span>(t):
    <span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">return</span> <span style="color: #666666">-8*</span>R<span style="color: #666666">*</span>t<span style="color: #666666">*</span>(<span style="color: #666666">1</span> <span style="color: #666666">-</span> t<span style="color: #666666">/</span>(<span style="color: #666666">2*</span>R))
</pre></div>
<p>
Our action function for horizontal displacements <code>v(t)*dt</code> becomes
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">def</span> <span style="color: #0000FF">move</span>(t, fig):
    x_displacement <span style="color: #666666">=</span> dt<span style="color: #666666">*</span>v(t)
    fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>translate((x_displacement, <span style="color: #666666">0</span>))
</pre></div>
<p>
Since our velocity is negative for \( t\in [0,2R] \) the displacement is
to the left.

<p>
The <code>animate</code> function will for each time point <code>t</code> in <code>tp</code> erase
the drawing, call <code>action(t, fig)</code>, and show the new figure by
<code>fig.draw()</code> and <code>drawing_tool.display()</code>.
Here we choose a resolution of the animation corresponding to
25 time points in the time interval \( [0,2R] \):
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">import</span> <span style="color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold">numpy</span>
tp <span style="color: #666666">=</span> numpy<span style="color: #666666">.</span>linspace(<span style="color: #666666">0</span>, <span style="color: #666666">2*</span>R, <span style="color: #666666">25</span>)
dt <span style="color: #666666">=</span> tp[<span style="color: #666666">1</span>] <span style="color: #666666">-</span> tp[<span style="color: #666666">0</span>]  <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># time step</span>

animate(fig, tp, move, pause_per_frame<span style="color: #666666">=0.2</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>
The <code>pause_per_frame</code> adds a pause, here 0.2 seconds, between
each frame in the animation.

<p>
We can also ask <code>animate</code> to store each frame in a file:
<p>

<!-- code=python (!bc pycod) typeset with pygments style "default" -->
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">files <span style="color: #666666">=</span> animate(fig, tp, move_vehicle, moviefiles<span style="color: #666666">=</span><span style="color: #008000">True</span>,
                pause_per_frame<span style="color: #666666">=0.2</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>
The <code>files</code> variable, here <code>'tmp_frame_%04d.png'</code>,
is the printf-specification used to generate the individual
plot files. We can use this specification to make a video
file via <code>ffmpeg</code> (or <code>avconv</code> on Debian-based Linux systems such
as Ubuntu). Videos in the Flash and WebM formats can be created
by

<p>

<!-- code=text (!bc sys) typeset with pygments style "default" -->
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">Terminal&gt; ffmpeg -r 12 -i tmp_frame_%04d.png -vcodec flv mov.flv
Terminal&gt; ffmpeg -r 12 -i tmp_frame_%04d.png -vcodec libvpx mov.webm
</pre></div>
<p>
An animated GIF movie can also be made using the <code>convert</code> program
from the ImageMagick software suite:

<p>

<!-- code=text (!bc sys) typeset with pygments style "default" -->
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">Terminal&gt; convert -delay 20 tmp_frame*.png mov.gif
Terminal&gt; animate mov.gif  # play movie
</pre></div>
<p>
The delay between frames, in units of 1/100 s,
governs the speed of the movie.
To play the animated GIF file in a web page, simply insert
<code>&lt;img src=&quot;mov.gif&quot;&gt;</code> in the HTML code.

<p>
The individual PNG frames can be directly played in a web
browser by running

<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">Terminal&gt; scitools movie output_file=mov.html fps=5 tmp_frame*
</pre></div>
<p>
or calling

<p>

<!-- code=python (!bc pycod) typeset with pygments style "default" -->
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%"><span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">from</span> <span style="color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold">scitools.std</span> <span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">import</span> movie
movie(files, encoder<span style="color: #666666">=</span><span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;html&#39;</span>, output_file<span style="color: #666666">=</span><span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;mov.html&#39;</span>)
</pre></div>
<p>
in Python. Load the resulting file <code>mov.html</code> into a web browser
to play the movie.

<p>
Try to run <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ot733jn/vehicle0.py" target="_self"><tt>vehicle0.py</tt></a> and
then load <code>mov.html</code> into a browser, or play one of the <code>mov.*</code>
video files.  Alternatively, you can view a ready-made <a href="http://tinyurl.com/oou9lp7/mov-tut/vehicle0.html" target="_self">movie</a>.

<h3 id="sketcher:vehicle1:anim">Animation: rolling the wheels</h3>

<p>
It is time to show rolling wheels. To this end, we add spokes to the
wheels, formed by two crossing lines, see Figure <a href="#sketcher:fig:vehicle1">7</a>.
The construction of the wheels will now involve a circle and two lines:
<p>

<!-- code=python (!bc pycod) typeset with pygments style "default" -->
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">wheel1 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> Composition({
    <span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel&#39;</span>: Circle(center<span style="color: #666666">=</span>(w_1, R), radius<span style="color: #666666">=</span>R),
    <span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;cross&#39;</span>: Composition({<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;cross1&#39;</span>: Line((w_1,<span style="color: #666666">0</span>),   (w_1,<span style="color: #666666">2*</span>R)),
                          <span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;cross2&#39;</span>: Line((w_1<span style="color: #666666">-</span>R,R), (w_1<span style="color: #666666">+</span>R,R))})})
wheel2 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> wheel1<span style="color: #666666">.</span>copy()
wheel2<span style="color: #666666">.</span>translate((L,<span style="color: #666666">0</span>))
</pre></div>
<p>
Observe that <code>wheel1.copy()</code> copies all the objects that make
up the first wheel, and <code>wheel2.translate</code> translates all
the copied objects.

<p>
<center> <!-- figure -->
<hr class="figure">
<center><p class="caption">Figure 7:  Wheels with spokes to illustrate rolling. <div id="sketcher:fig:vehicle1"></div> </p></center>
<p><img src="fig-tut/vehicle1.png" align="bottom" width=400></p>
</center>

<p>
The <code>move</code> function now needs to displace all the objects in the
entire vehicle and also rotate the <code>cross1</code> and <code>cross2</code>
objects in both wheels.
The rotation angle follows from the fact that the arc length
of a rolling wheel equals the displacement of the center of
the wheel, leading to a rotation angle
<p>

<!-- code=python (!bc pycod) typeset with pygments style "default" -->
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">angle <span style="color: #666666">=</span> <span style="color: #666666">-</span> x_displacement<span style="color: #666666">/</span>R
</pre></div>
<p>
With <code>w_1</code> tracking the \( x \) coordinate of the center
of the front wheel, we can rotate that wheel by
<p>

<!-- code=python (!bc pycod) typeset with pygments style "default" -->
<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">w1 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel1&#39;</span>]
<span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">from</span> <span style="color: #0000FF; font-weight: bold">math</span> <span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">import</span> degrees
w1<span style="color: #666666">.</span>rotate(degrees(angle), center<span style="color: #666666">=</span>(w_1, R))
</pre></div>
<p>
The <code>rotate</code> function takes two parameters: the rotation angle
(in degrees) and the center point of the rotation, which is the
center of the wheel in this case. The other wheel is rotated by
<p>

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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">w2 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel2&#39;</span>]
w2<span style="color: #666666">.</span>rotate(degrees(angle), center<span style="color: #666666">=</span>(w_1 <span style="color: #666666">+</span> L, R))
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That is, the angle is the same, but the rotation point is different.
The update of the center point is done by <code>w_1 += x_displacement</code>.
The complete <code>move</code> function with translation of the entire
vehicle and rotation of the wheels then becomes
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<div class="highlight" style="background: #f8f8f8"><pre style="line-height: 125%">w_1 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> w_1 <span style="color: #666666">+</span> L   <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># start position</span>

<span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">def</span> <span style="color: #0000FF">move</span>(t, fig):
    x_displacement <span style="color: #666666">=</span> dt<span style="color: #666666">*</span>v(t)
    fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>]<span style="color: #666666">.</span>translate((x_displacement, <span style="color: #666666">0</span>))

    <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># Rotate wheels</span>
    <span style="color: #008000; font-weight: bold">global</span> w_1
    w_1 <span style="color: #666666">+=</span> x_displacement
    <span style="color: #408080; font-style: italic"># R*angle = -x_displacement</span>
    angle <span style="color: #666666">=</span> <span style="color: #666666">-</span> x_displacement<span style="color: #666666">/</span>R
    w1 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel1&#39;</span>]
    w1<span style="color: #666666">.</span>rotate(degrees(angle), center<span style="color: #666666">=</span>(w_1, R))
    w2 <span style="color: #666666">=</span> fig[<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;vehicle&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheels&#39;</span>][<span style="color: #BA2121">&#39;wheel2&#39;</span>]
    w2<span style="color: #666666">.</span>rotate(degrees(angle), center<span style="color: #666666">=</span>(w_1 <span style="color: #666666">+</span> L, R))
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The complete example is found in the file
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ot733jn/vehicle1.py" target="_self"><tt>vehicle1.py</tt></a>. You may run this file or watch a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/oou9lp7/mov-tut/vehicle1.html" target="_self">ready-made movie</a>.

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The advantages with making figures this way, through programming
rather than using interactive drawing programs, are numerous.  For
example, the objects are parameterized by variables so that various
dimensions can easily be changed.  Subparts of the figure, possible
involving a lot of figure objects, can change color, linetype, filling
or other properties through a <em>single</em> function call.  Subparts of the
figure can be rotated, translated, or scaled.  Subparts of the figure
can also be copied and moved to other parts of the drawing
area. However, the single most important feature is probably the
ability to make animations governed by mathematical formulas or data
coming from physics simulations of the problem, as shown in the example above.

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