Linlin Yan posted a cool (hot?) simulation of burning fire with R in the COS forum yesterday, which was indeed a warm welcome. I’m not sure whether our forum members will be scared by the “fire” under the title “Welcome to COS Forum”. The fire was mainly created by the function image() with carefully designed rows and columns in heated colors heat.colors(). Here is one of the pictures generated from his code:
The speed of drawing animation frames is rather slow in my computer, but it doesn’t matter since we can use the animation package (hey, you are advertising!) to save all the image frames and convert them to a single animation file.
library(animation)
# set row=50 instead of the default 100 to let the fire burn to the ceiling
# make sure you have installed the SWF Tools and the command 'png2swf' can
# be executed (with or w/o it installation path); see ?saveSWF
saveSWF(Fire(50), interval = 0.05, dev = "png", outdir = getwd(),
para = list(mar = c(0, 0, 2, 0)))
Now the animation is much more smooth than what we saw in R graphics window.
Thanks, awesome Linlin.
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