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~ Static Code Analysis For Java Using Eclipse

This post is about the tools I use to keep the source code of Tarsos reasonably clean, consistent and readable. Static code analysis can be of great help if you want to maintain strict coding standards and follow language idioms. Some of the patterns they can detect for you:

And even more subtle, but equally important:

In a previous life I used .NET and the static code analysis tools FxCop & StyleCop. FxCop operates on bytecode (or intermediate language in .NET parlance) level, StyleCop analyses the source code itself. Tarsos uses JAVA so I looked for JAVA alternatives and found a few.

On freesoftwaremagazine.com there is an article series on JAVA static code analysis software. It covers PMD and FixBugs and integration in Eclipse. It does not cover Checkstyle. Checkstyle is essentialy the same as PMD but it is better integrated in eclipse: it checks code on save and uses the standard ‘Problems’ interface, PMD does not.

To fix problems Eclipse save actions can save you some time. IBM has an article on how to keep your code clean using Eclipse.

Continuous testing is also a really nice thing to have: detecting unexpected behavior while refactoring/programming can prevent unnecessary bug hunts. A video about immediate feedback using continuous testing makes this clear.

Another tip is a more philosophical one: making your code and code revisions publicly available makes you think twice before implementing (and subsequently publishing) a quick and dirty hack. Tarsos is available on github.

References


~ Tarsos demos

I just finished creating a first release of Tarsos. The release contains several demo applications, some more usefull than other. Tarsos is a work in progress: not all functionality is exposed with the CLI demo applications. The demos should however give a taste of the possibilities. All demo applications follow this pattern:

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java -jar tarsos.jar subcommand [--option [argument] ...]

To get help the --help switch can be used. It generates contextual help for either the subcommand or for Tarsos itself.

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java -jar tarsos.jar subcommand --help

Detect Pitch

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java -jar tarsos.jar detect_pitch --in flute.novib.mf.C5B5.wav

Midi to Audio Using a Scala Tone Scale

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java -jar tarsos.jar midi_to_wav --midi satie_gymno1.mid --scala 120.scl

Audio to Scala Tone Scale

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java -jar tarsos.jar audio_to_scala --in out.wav

Annotate a File

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Pitch table

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~ Doorhacking: Opening a Door With Your Cellphone

The problem: There is a group of people that want access to Hackerspace Ghent but there is only one remote to open the gate.

The solution: Build a system that reacts to a phone call by opening the gate if the number of the caller is whitelisted.

What you need:

The Hack: First of all try to get caller id working by following the Caller ID with Linux and Huawei e220 tutorial. If this works you can listen to the serial communication using pySerial and react to a call. The following python code shows the wait for call method:

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def wait_for_call(self):
  self.data_channel.open()
  call_id_pattern = re.compile('.*CLIP.*"\+([0-9]+)",.*')
  while True:
    bytes = self.data_channel.inWaiting()
    buffer = self.data_channel.readline(bytes)
    call_id_match = call_id_pattern.match(buffer)
    if call_id_match:
      number = call_id_match.group(1)
      self.handle_call(number)

The handle_call method … handles the call.

The second thing that is needed is a way to send a signal from the beagle board to the remote. Sending a signal from the beagle board using Linux is really simple. The following bash commands initialize, activate and deactivate a pin.

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echo 168 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo "high" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio168/direction
echo "low" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio168/direction

~ Tarsos Spectrogram

Today I created a spectrogram application using Tarsos. The application listens to an audio input, computes an FFT and at the same time calculates pitch. The expected pitch is overlaid on the spectrogram. All this happens real-time and is implemented using JAVA.

spectrum with pitch information (red)

This is the most recent version of the spectrogram implementation in java.

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float pitch = Yin.processBuffer(buffer, (float) sampleRate);
fft.transform(buffer);
double maxAmplitude = 0;
for (int j = 0; j < buffer.length / 2; j++) {
        double amplitude = buffer[j] * buffer[j] + buffer[j + 
                buffer.length/2] * buffer[j+ buffer.length/2];
        amplitude = Math.pow(amplitude, 0.5);
        colorIndexes[j] = amplitude;
        maxAmplitude = Math.max(amplitude, maxAmplitude);
}

If you want to test it yourself download the spectrogram jar package and execute:

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java -jar spectrogram.jar

~ Caller ID with Linux and Huawei e220

This is the scenario: you have a Huawei e220, a linux computer and you want to react to a call from a set of predefined numbers. E.g. ordering a pizza when you receive a call from a certain number.

The Huawei e220 supports a subset of the AT commands, which subset is an enterprise secret of te Huawei company. So there is no documentation available for the device I bought, thanks Huawei. Anyhow when you attach the e220 to a Linux machine you should get two serial ports:

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/dev/ttyUSB1

To connect to the devices you can use a serial client. GNU Screen can be used as a serial client like this: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 115200. The first device, ttyUSB0 is used to control ttyUSB1, so to enable caller ID on te Huawei e220 you need to send this message to ttyUSB0:

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AT+CLIP=1

To check for calls you should listen to ttyUSB1. A serial session for ttyUSB1 looks like:

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^BOOT:44594282,0,0,0,6
^RSSI:18
RING
+CLIP: "+33499311152",145,,,,0
^BOOT:44594282,0,0,0,6

The RING and CLIP messages are the most interesting. The RING signifies an incoming call, the CLIP is the caller ID. The BOOT and RSSI are some kind of ping messages. The following Python script demonstrates a complete session that enables caller ID, waits for a phone call and prints the number of the caller.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import serial, re

command_channel = serial.Serial(
        port='/dev/ttyUSB0',
        baudrate=115200,
        parity=serial.PARITY_NONE,
        stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE,
        bytesize=serial.EIGHTBITS
)
command_channel.open()
#enable caller id
command_channel.write("AT+CLIP=1" + "\r\n")
command_channel.close()

ser = serial.Serial(
        port='/dev/ttyUSB1',
        baudrate=9600,
        parity=serial.PARITY_NONE,
        stopbits=serial.STOPBITS_ONE,
        bytesize=serial.EIGHTBITS
)

ser.open()

pattern = re.compile('.*CLIP.*"\+([0-9]+)",.*')

while 1:
        buffer = ser.read(ser.inWaiting()).strip()
        buffer = buffer.replace("\n","")
        match = pattern.match(buffer)
        if match:
                number = match.group(1)
                print number

~ YIN Pitch Tracker in JAVA

To make Tarsos more portable I wrote a pitch tracker in pure JAVA using the YIN algorithm based on the implementation in C of aubio. The implementation also uses some code written by Karl Helgasson and Teun de Lange of the Jazzperiments project.

It can be used to perform real time pitch detection or to analyse files. To use it as a real time pitch detector just start the JAR-file by double clicking. To analyse a file execute one of the following. The first results in a list of annotations (text), the second shows the annotations graphically.

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java -jar pitch_detector_yin.jar  --file flute.novib.mf.C5B5.wav

The provided flute sample is from The Musical Samples library of the University of Iowa and converted to mono wav. The source code of the pitch tracker can be found below.

Update: the Yin implementation in Java has been incorporated into the TarsosDSP project. An open source, Real-Time Audio Processing Framework in Java.


~ Tarsos on GitHub

The JAVA software program we are developing is called Tarsos and can now be found on GitHub. GitHub is a web-based hosting service for projects that use the Git version control system.

Currently Tarsos is a collection of Java classes to create, compare and process pitch-frequency data using histograms. In it’s current state it is not usable for end-users.

Credits

Tarsos is developed at University College Ghent, Faculty of Music and uses a number of open source libraries:


~ Dataset

The dataset we use is the sound archive of the department of Ethnomusicology of the Royal Museum for Central Africa at Tervuren, Belgium. The archive was digitized during the DEKKMMA project. More information about the dataset can be foun on the website of the DEKKMMA project:

The archive is a collection of sound recordings of traditional music from Central Africa, with a particular focus on Congo and Rwanda. The sound archive contains about 3,000 hours of music recordings, the oldest of which date from 1910: Edison cylinders recorded by Hutereau in the Uele-province in Congo.

The archive contains several sound carriers (Edison cylinders, Sonofil wire, magnetic tapes, audiocassettes, disks, CD’s …) with associated metadata (paper files) and contextual data (photographs, films, video’s, books, documents of all kind).

The collection was created during and after the colonial era of the Belgian Kingdom in Central Africa. The RMCA collection forms for an important part the musical memory of Central Africa and in terms of size, documentation and musical quality, it is – without any doubt – the world’s most important sound archive for this region.

Using the meta data we did a rough geocoding of each recording to create an interactive map of the dataset.


~ Boids 3D with Processing


~ Development and Application of MIR Techniques on Ethnic Music

About

The aim of this research project is to gain novel musicological insights into a large dataset of music from Central Africa. While practising ethnomusicological research on this dataset, we to develop and publish useful software and methodologies for the (ethno)musicological research community.

From November 2009 until November 2013 this research project was organised at the School of Arts, University College Ghent, under supervision by Olmo Cornelis. Later, from November 2013 onwards, the project turned into a 2 year doctoral research project hosted at IPEM, University Ghent under the supervision of Marc Leman.

Partners



Royal Museum For Central Africa University Ghent  Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music University College Ghent, Hogeschool Gent School of Arts, Ghent


~ Jobsopschool.be

Jobsopschool.be werd door 0110.be ontwikkeld in opdracht van scholengemeenschap Sperregem. Het doel van die webapplicatie is om de administratieve rompslomp bij het zoeken naar en aanwerven van kandidaten voor vervangingen in het onderwijs te vereenvoudigen. Zoek je vacatures in het basisonderwijs? Neem dan zeker een kijkje op Jobopschool.be.


~ Order Pizza with USB Pizza Button

Recently I bought a big shiny red USB-button. It is big, red and shiny. Initially I planned to use it to deploy new versions of websites to a server but I found a much better use: ordering pizza. Graphically the use case translates to something akin to:

If you would like to enhance your life quality leveraging the power of a USB pizza-button: you can! This is what you need:

  1. A PC running Linux. This tutorial is specifically geared towards Debian-based distos. YMMV.
  2. A big, shiny red USB button. Just google “USB panic button” if you want one.
  3. A location where you can order pizzas via a website. I live in Ghent, Belgium and use just-eat.be. Other websites can be supported by modifying a Ruby script.

Technically we need a driver to check when the button was pushed, a way to communicate the fact that the button was pushed and lastly we need to be able to react to the request.

The driver: on the internets I found a driver for the button. Another modification was done to make the driver process a daemon.

The communication: The original Python script executed another script on the local pc. A more flexible approach is possible using sockets. With sockets it is possible to notify any computer on a network.

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if PanicButton().pressed():
  # create a TCP socket
  s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  # connect to server on the port
  s.connect((SERVER, SERVER_TCP_PORT))
  # send the order (margherita at restaurant mario)
  s.send("mario:  [margherita_big]\n")

The reaction: a ruby TCP server waits for message from the driver. When it does it automates a HTTP session on a website. It executes a series of HTTP-GET’s and POST’s. It uses the mechanize library.

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login_url = "http://www.just-eat.be/pages/member/login.aspx"
a = WWW::Mechanize.new
a.get(login_url) do |login_page|   
  #post login_form
  login_form = login_page.forms.first
  login_form.txtUser = "username"
  login_form.txtPass  = "password"
  a.submit(login_form, login_form.buttons[1])
end

Some libraries are needed. For python you need the usb library, the python deamons lib needs to be installed seperatly. Setuptools are needed to install the deamons package.

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Ruby needs rubygems to install the needed mechanize and daemons library. Mechanize needs the libxslt-dev package. You also need the build-essential package to build mechanize.

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sudo gem install mechanize daemons

To automatically start the daemons on boot you can use the crontab @reboot directive of the root user. E.g.:

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@reboot /opt/pizza_service/pizza_button_driver.py

~ Touchatag RFID reader and Ubuntu Linux

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This blog post is about how to use the Touchatag RFID reader hardware on Ubuntu Linux without using the Touchatag web service.

An RFID reader with tags can used to fire events. With a bit of scripting the events can be handled to do practically any task.

Normally a Touchatag reader is used together with the Touchatag web service but for some RFID applications the web service is just not practical. E.g. for embedded Linux devices without an Internet connection. In this tutorial I wil document how I got the Touchatag hardware working under Ubuntu Linux.

To follow this tutorial you will need:

The touchatag USB reader works at 13.56MHz (High Frequency RFID) and has a readout distance of about 4 cm (1.5 inch) when used with the touchatag RFID tags. Internally it uses an ACS ACR122U reader with a SAM card. A Linux driver is readily available so when you plug it in lsusb you should get something like this:

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lsusb 

Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 072e:90dd Advanced Card Systems, Ltd

lsusb recognizes the device incorrectly but that’s not a problem. To read RFID-tags and respond to events additional software is needed: tagEventor is a software library that does just that. It can be downloaded using an svn command:

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To compile tagEventor a couple of other software packages or header files should be available on your system. Te tagEventor software dependencies are described on the tagEventor wiki. On Ubuntu (and possibly other Debian based distro’s the installation is simple:

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#if you need gnome support
#sudo aptitude install libgtk2.0-dev

Now the tricky part. Two header files of the pcsclite package need to be modified (update: this bug is fixed see here). tagEventor builds and can be installed:

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tagEventor BUILT (./bin/Release/tagEventor)

sudo ./install.sh
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When tagEventor is correctly installed the only thing left is … to build your application. When an event is fired tagEventor executes the /etc/tageventor/generic script with three parameters (see below). Using some kind of IPC an application can react to events. A simple and flexible way to propagate events (inter-processes, over a network, platform and programming language independent) uses sockets. The code below is the /etc/tageventor/generic script (make sure it is executable), it communicates with the server: the second script. To run the server execute ruby /name/of/server.rb

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

# $1 = SAM (unique ID of the SAM chip in the smart card reader if exists, "NoSAM" otherwise
# $2 = UID (unique ID of the tag, as later we may use wildcard naming)
# $3 = Event Type (IN for new tag placed on reader, OUT for tag removed from reader)

require 'socket'

data = ARGV.join('|')
puts data

streamSock = TCPSocket.new( "127.0.0.1", 20000 )
streamSock.send(data, 0)
streamSock.close
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     puts s.gets
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end

The tagEventor software is made by the Autelic Association a Non-Profit association dedicated to making technology easier to use for all. I would like to thank Andrew Mackenzie, the founder and president of the association for creating the software and the support.


~ Jobsopschool

Ik heb in opdracht van scholengroep Sperregem een website gemaakt die het vinden van kandidaten voor korte vervangingen vlotter doet verlopen. Mensen met interesse voor vacatures in het onderwijs in West-Vlaanderen kunnen zich er op inschrijven.

De website heeft enkele voordelen voor verschillende scholen in de scholengroep:

Ook voor de aspirant onderwijzers is de website handig:

Daarnaast is het ook voor de personeelsdienst een handige tool: die kan nu een beter overzicht bewaren over de vacatures en de invulling ervan in de verschillende scholen.

Hieronder staan enkele screenshots.


~ Vooruit.be vernieuwd

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Vandaag is de vernieuwde vooruitwebsite gelanceerd:

We bieden je nog meer video’s, foto’s, audiotracks en tekstmateriaal en hebben ook jouw persoonlijke voordelen uitgebreid. Wanneer je lid wordt van www.vooruit.be, kan je nog steeds je kalender aanvullen, vrienden maken en reacties posten, maar daarnaast krijg je ook aanbevelingen op maat, kan je voorstellingen tippen en kan je berichten sturen naar vrienden *.

Het gepersonaliseerde aanbevelingssysteem is door Greet Dolvelde en mezelf in het kader van onze thesis: Collaborative Filtering: Onderzoek & implementatie [pdf] ontwikkeld. Dus waar wacht je nog op? Word lid, check de aanbevelingen bij concerten en vooral je gepersonaliseerde aanbevelingen.

Voor de iets minder enthousiaste doorklikkikkers staan hieronder wat screenshots van de verschillende soorten aanbevelingen op www.vooruit.be:


~ Verhuis naar VPS

VPS

Waarschijnlijk heb je het al gemerkt: deze site gaat nu heel wat sneller. Dit is te danken aan een verhuis. 0110.be wordt nu gehost op een VPS.

De virtuele server heeft Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server als besturingssysteem en draait op een Xen hypervisor. De fysieke server zelf bevat een achttal Intel® Xeon® E5440 @ 2.83GHz CPU’s.

De server staat in Amsterdam en is rechtstreeks verbonden met het grootste internetknooppunt ter wereld: AMS-IX.


~ SQL-bestand met een lijst van alle Belgische postcodes en steden

Logo de Post

Uit de lijst van postcodes van alle Belgische steden heb ik een SQL-bestand samengesteld. De gegevens bevatten de postcode zelf, de naam van de stad, de naam van de stad in hoofdletters en een veld “structure” waaruit de gemeente-deelgemeente relatie gehaald kan worden als er op gesorteerd wordt. Dit zijn bijvoorbeeld de deelgemeentes van Chimay.

6460   CHIMAY
6460        Bailièvre
6460        Robechies
6460        Saint-Remy (Ht.)
6460        Salles
6460        Villers-la-Tour
6461        Virelles
6462        Vaulx-lez-Chimay
6463        Lompret
6464        Baileux
6464        Bourlers
6464        Forges
6464        l'Escaillère
6464        Rièzes


Het sorteren kan in PostgreSQL met deze SQL instructie: order by translate(structure, ' ', 'z'). Het SQL-script zelf is een lijst van INSERT INTO SQL-Statements.

insert into cities(zipcode,name,up,structure)  VALUES ('1790','Affligem','AFFLIGEM','1790   AFFLIGEM');
insert into cities(zipcode,name,up,structure)  VALUES ('9051','Afsnee','AFSNEE','9051        Afsnee');
insert into cities(zipcode,name,up,structure)  VALUES ('5544','Agimont','AGIMONT','5544        Agimont');
...

Dit is het SQL-bestand met een lijst van alle Belgische postcodes en steden. Hopelijk is hier iemand ooit iets mee.


~ Query Tool

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While working at the Vooruit Arts Centre I got the assignment to create a tool to query an Oracle database with ticketing data. There were a few requirements for the Query Tool, in the current version all of these are met:

By publishing the Query Tool on my website I hope that the fruits of my labour can be enjoyed by a wider audience. To see it in action you can give it a spin. A recent version, version 6, of the JRE is needed.

How Do I Use The Query Tool?

The program supports two ways to query a database:

The two buttons below are self explanatory. When the button “CVS Export” is hit a CVS file is created in a configured directory.

Depending on the complexity of a query it can take a long time before results are returned. Because the application is multithreaded the user interface remains responsive and the query can be stopped at any time.

The contents of the tab “log” gives you an idea what the application does. When something goes awry while executing a query a message appears in this tab.

The tab “Config” can be used to set configuration parameters. The tab “Help” contains… helpful information.

Screenshot

How Do I Add My Own Queries?

The list of predefined queries is constructed by iterating over SQL-files in a configured directory. Adding additional queries to the program is easy, just add an extra SQL-file to the directory. An SQL-file should have the following format, otherwise it is ignored:

TITEL
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DESCRIPTION
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SQL-INSTRUCTION with zero or more !{PARAMETERS}!

In the screen shot above this query is visible:

Select products in category
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Select all the products in a category.
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SELECT * FROM  
products WHERE categoryid = !{category}!  

To make the queries dynamic the Query Tool supports different kinds of parameters. A parameter has this form: !{type name}!, the name is optional. If there is a name specified it is used as a label in the interface, otherwise type is used. There are three types of parameters:

  1. Parameters that define a type. For each type a corresponding user interface is rendered. E.g. for the type string a text field is rendered. The supported types are:
    • !{string}!
    • !{boolean}!
    • !{double}!
    • !{date}!
    • !{integer}!
  2. Parameters for raw SQL. A textfield is rendered, the contents is directly injected in the SQL-query. It has this format: !{sql}!
  3. Parameters for lists. In the example above a list parameter is used. These lists are fetched from the database. E.g. a list of categories. The SQL-instruction and name of the list parameters can be configured.

If you want to use your own database you need to configure the database connection string. The program uses JDBC to connect to the database. It uses metadata provided by the JDBC layer. If your database has a JDBC driver with support for metadata the Query Tool will work correctly. The JDBC driver must be included in the classpath.

Credits

The Query Tool uses the famfamfam mini icons.

For demoing purposes the executable contains a lightweight hsql database. The data in the database is a modified version of the Microsoft Northwind database. The northwind hsql database is created with this SQL-script.

Downloads


~ Boids in Python

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Na het bekijken van het onderstaande filmpje van een zwerm spreeuwen vroeg ik mij af of die bewegingen zich aan een bepaald algoritme houden en of ik een programma kon schrijven die dit gedrag simuleerde. Na wat onderzoek bleek dat zowat alle dieren die zich in kudde voortbewegen dit doen volgens gelijkaardige, relatief eenvoudige processen.



Er zijn drie basisregels waaraan onder andere scholen vissen, zwermen vogels en kuddes gnoes zich houden:

  1. Voorkom botsingen met de dichtste buren door de andere kant op te gaan.
  2. Beweeg ongeveer in de zelfde richting en even snel als het gemiddelde van de buren.
  3. Beweeg naar het midden van de groep.

De paper Flocks, Herds, and Schools:
A Distributed Behavioral Model – 1987
van Craig W. Reynolds was de eerste die deze regels formeel omschreef. Aan de hand van die documentatie en een praktische omschrijving kon ik aan een implementatie beginnen. De boids implementatie in Python gebruikt pygame om een groep creaturen voor te stellen met een gekleurd vierkantje. De creaturen bewegen zich volgens de drie bovenstaande regels. Daarnaast proberen ze om binnen het zichtbare kader te blijven en begeven ze zich naar het midden van het kader. Om de boel wat interactiever te maken wordt de muisaanwijzer gezien als een gevaarlijk roofdier die niets liever lust dan vierkantjes. De vierkantjes proberen de roof-muis dus te ontlopen. De zesde en laatste regel legt een maximum snelheid op, zodat de bewegingen realistisch blijven.

De huidige implementatie is O(n²), terwijl het O(nk) zou moeten zijn, met k de grootte van de burenlijst. Een vloeiende simulatie van een zwerm van duizenden is dus momenteel niet mogelijk. De berekeningen voor een extra dimensie zijn erg eenvoudig te implementeren, helaas is de visualisatie van de resultaten dat niet. Ik heb geprobeerd om met de OpenGL bindingen voor Python te werken maar veel resultaat heeft dat niet opgeleverd. Dit is de 3D-versie, maar dan met een 2D visualsatie.

Ik heb er voor het gemak ook een uitvoerbaar bestand voor Windows van gemaakt.


~ Vergelijking Ruby VMs

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Ik heb een B-Tree en een Red-Black tree geschreven in Ruby. Om die datastructuren te testen heb ik een programma geschreven dat alle woorden uit een grote tekst inleest in een b-tree met het woord als sleutel en de frequentie als waarde en daarna een red black tree gebruikt als priority queue met als sleutel de frequentie en als waarde het woord. Op die manier kunnen de meest voorkomende woorden bepaald worden. De broncode is hier neer te laden.

Het programma is een ideale test voor Ruby VM’s: het is redelijk intensief en gevarieerd. IronRuby, JRuby, Ruby 1.8 en Ruby 1.9 werden getest op een Intel Core 2 Duo E6660 en dit zijn de resultaten:

VM Duur Geheugen VM details
JRuby 28.79 sec 162MB jruby 1.1.3 (ruby 1.8.6 patchlevel 114) (2008-07-20 rev 7243) [x86-java]
IronRuby 88.15 sec 195MB IronRuby 1.0.0.1 on .NET 2.0.50727.1433
Ruby 1.8 104.1 sec 102MB ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]
Ruby 1.8 66.8 sec 96MB ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [universal-darwin9.0]
Ruby 1.9 33.42 sec 88MB ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i386-darwin9.2.0]

De verschillen zijn dus erg groot. Zowel in geheugengebruik als in duur. Ruby 1.8 is blijkbaar erg traag maar gebruikt relatief weinig geheugen. JRuby is in deze test drie keer sneller maar gebruikt meer geheugen. Ook IronRuby is sneller dan de standaard Ruby VM maar gebruikt net niet het dubbele aan geheugen. Hierbij moet wel verteld worden dat IronRuby een alfa build is, de resultaten kunnen dus nog veel veranderen.

Ruby 1.9 werd later getest op Mac OS X, met dezelfde pc. De nieuwe Ruby lijkt toch enkele beloften in te lossen. Ter vergelijking werd de voor Mac OS X geoptimaliseerde Ruby 1.8 VM die standaard met het besturingssysteem meegeleverd wordt ook nog getest.


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