Coding

[blotz]

i got an error message

[vh]

all the imports should be installed by default.


this modified version will delete files if you leave the caption blank, exit if you enter 'break' as the caption, and start at any screenshot you want. so if you captioned 500/10,000 screenshots, you can start at 2013-3-4-2004.png. if you leave start blank , you start from the beginning


edit; some errors with below version

ok fixed

the folder you are captioning must contain only image files

[blotz]

no pil

[atomic7732]

i think this is the tk inter stuff but idk if it works i tried it and it broke when i typed things so idk what i did to it but it used to work

[blotz]

i need a program that clicks every 30-45 seconds, and it has to be random. by click i mean like a left click

[Darvince]

i know this is about empireattack. mudkipz made a python script to continuously click in an outward circle from his capital and his account got banned for a week.

[blotz]

well fuck i'll test it on another account

[atomic7732]

how did they even know he had a bot, or did they?

and how could they tell if it clicked at random?

[vh]

protip for copying:

suppose you have a piece of data, and you want to do two things to it. in my case, i had an array of data representing an image which i wanted to do two things with.

1. simulate particles moving on the image
2. render the image with particles

since the particles weren't on the image (i had them in a separate class), i would have to change the array in order to render the image.

the obvious solution is copying

renderdata = data

but this is a reference to the list, not an actual copy. this is wrong because

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>>>data = range(1000)
>>>tempdata = data
>>>tempdata[0] = 100
>>>data[0]
100
to fix this, you should do

renderdata = list(data) #creates a new list
or
renderdata = data[:] #creates a slice of data, which is a new list

tl;dr use copy = list(data) for making a copy of a list instead of a reference

[vh]

protip #2:

representing the number 1 as a '64-bit big-endian integer' just means

00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001


argghh terminology

[vh]

item copying tip:

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>>>e = range(100)
>>>g = e
>>>g[0] = 50
>>>e[0]
50
when you copy e, you are only getting a refernce to it. thus, changing g changes e

this can normally be fixed by doing this

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e = list(g)
or

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e = g[:]
however, in some cases, this does not work (i still do not know why, except that this has caused me hours of trouble)
in those cases,

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import copy
e = copy.deepcopy(g)

[atomic7732]

I was messing around with PIL (Python Image Library) and created a simple image based on random colors.

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from PIL import Image
import random
import operator

width = 100
height = 100

data = []

start = (random.randint(0, 255), random.randint(0, 255), random.randint(0, 255))

for x in xrange(0, width*height):
    rand = (random.randint(-5, 5), random.randint(-5, 5), random.randint(-5, 5))
    data.append(tuple(map(operator.add, start, rand)))
    start = tuple(map(operator.add, start, rand))


img = Image.new('RGB', (width, height))
img.putdata(data)
img.save('image.png')
(first two images use -1/1, last two use -5/5)

[vh]

huh pretty

[Bla]

Nice, could be adapted to generate planetary ring textures maybe? Or maybe textures for gas giants.

[vh]

i've been on this for a few days but got bored. basically it simulates the formation of cities out of randomly distributed populations.

first it initializes cities on the map. then, for each city, it calculates the 'value' of each piece of land around it taking into account population density and distance. then, the city moves from it's current position to the land with the highest value. repeat.

the code runs fine but no cities form for some reason.

[atomic7732]

does anyone know where to get some coastline data
I don't know but I'm going to hav to somehow decode it and stuffs and put it into PIL to get a map

[vh]

what do you mean by coastline data? images of coastline?

[atomic7732]

like

numbers

latitude and longitude

locations

[vh]

of what? every point on the coastline?

[atomic7732]

yes

[vh]

tkinter documentation is surprisingly sparse. here's an alpha version of URANCO (uranium enrichment company simulator)

[vh]

so it seems that even rendering a simple 3d object is difficult in python. i've read the panda3d documentation, opengl documentation, and none of it seems to make sense. blender works, but it's python 3. this sucks.

however, i think i could write some code to render shapes in a 3d environment for tkinter, allowing me to render 3d shapes. the optimization would take some time though.

[matty406]

what is this

[Darvince]

pyGCM = python Global Climate Simulator.

[blotz]

my first python program done

[Darvince]

i was expecting it to be tkinter and nothing else

[Darvince]

global climate model

[atomic7732]

how do you know that it even makes sense how do you have data output

rn i'm too tired to fix my model's grid edge problems so i don't even know if it works yet because that kind of breaks the program if it tries to put something in grid[-1][-1] sooo

I have also decided that my ocean model is pretty bad and even when i add the land it'll probably fail horribly and end up only simulating a general current direction (which we basically already know anyway, defeating the purpose) and not even the temperature. I could do an atmospheric model much better, considering that involves actual pressure-gradient force. My ocean model only takes into account coriolis and a sine wave approximation of winds.

[vh]

grid[-1][-1] is valid

>>>g = [1,2,3]
>>>g[-1]
3

so it automatically warps on one side already

on the other

>>>g[3%len(grid)]
1

[atomic7732]

if calc1 > 0 and calc1 <= 1:
                newgrid[r-1][c-1].append(calc1*cell.t)
            if calc8 > 0 and calc8 <= 1:
                newgrid[r][c-1].append(calc8*cell.t)

it likes the first one but errors the other?