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Objects 2.

Similar to previous; but from -70° to +70°, every 10°.

A drawing just like this (all 3.5 meters of it) hung on the wall of my room at the Uni, just under the ceiling, for several years. Eventually it turned brown due to sunlight and cigarette smoke. But I've kept it ever since, as a souvenir!...

And there's another small story to this drawing:
On the Cyber (see intro), programs had to be "submitted" as "batch jobs".
But limits to my account didn't allow me to request the computing time necessary to complete the whole series.
So I had to write a program that:
Opens a file containing the angle, add 10°, then write and close that file.
Opens the file where the drawings are stored in "append" mode;
compute and add a new drawing, and close the file.
Then, if the upper limit for the angle hadn't been reached,
the program would generate a dummy file, which had for sole purpose
to signal to the batch job that (if file exists) it had to re-submit itself again.
And then hope that there isn't some a**hole prof's assistant with
high priority and permissions out there, running some stupid Monte Carlo again...

Nowadays, it takes my PC 0.920 seconds to complete the whole series! LOL

Description

Objects 2.

Similar to previous; but from -70° to +70°, every 10°.

A drawing just like this (all 3.5 meters of it) hung on the wall of my room at the Uni, just under the ceiling, for several years. Eventually it turned brown due to sunlight and cigarette smoke. But I've kept it ever since, as a souvenir!...

And there's another small story to this drawing:
On the Cyber (see intro), programs had to be "submitted" as "batch jobs".
But limits to my account didn't allow me to request the computing time necessary to complete the whole series.
So I had to write a program that:
Opens a file containing the angle, add 10°, then write and close that file.
Opens the file where the drawings are stored in "append" mode;
compute and add a new drawing, and close the file.
Then, if the upper limit for the angle hadn't been reached,
the program would generate a dummy file, which had for sole purpose
to signal to the batch job that (if file exists) it had to re-submit itself again.
And then hope that there isn't some a**hole prof's assistant with
high priority and permissions out there, running some stupid Monte Carlo again...

Nowadays, it takes my PC 0.920 seconds to complete the whole series! LOL