Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Lorenzo Sandini Newsgroups: comp.programming Subject: Re: physiological simulator Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:07:55 +0300 Lines: 38 Message-ID: <9ub3i7Fu9hU1@mid.individual.net> References: <9tu40hFnjqU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net yWiMV4C4pFe7m3vVF9GcCwqZUorwjmqORyGtoWmjflCCeio1X/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:v0pcTPScza0cJ4dNyxy9FDxCQIA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120407-0, 07.04.2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:1446 Thanks for the hints ! Lorenzo On 3.4.2012 0:37, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > [Followup-To: comp.programming like someone else suggested] > > On Mon, 2012-04-02, K. Frank wrote: >> On Apr 2, 12:55 pm, Lorenzo Sandini wrote: > ... >>> For teaching purposes, I need to model the variation of some biological >>> measurement in blood samples according to one or more external events, >>> and represent this variation in a graphical view, with an accelerated >>> timescale. (eg: a 24 hour period is viewed in 10 minutes). > ... >>> and the result of all events represented graphically. >> >> C++ itself, does not offer any graphics tools, so, again, you >> might be better off with a modelling package that has built-in >> graphics (such as Excel or Matlab). > > To me that's just a sign that the problem should be split in two > parts: calculation and visualization. This could be two different > programs, one in (perhaps) C++ which generates the data in some > suitable format, and one other which displays it. Or the second one > could convert the data to some standard animation format, which you > could view with standard software. > > Let people who are good at it make the GUIs, so you can concentate on > modeling. This split also make testing far, far easier. It's a > well-known technique. > > /Jorgen >