In the previous lesson you wrote a program that computes the way that heat
transfers in a rod when heat sources are applied to the two ends. You
displayed the results computed by your program by calling our function
print_rod
Even though both routines are long and involved, they succeed only in producing
relatively crude histograms. Since a different histogram is produced for each
instant in time, it is difficult to visualize exactly how the temperature of
the rod is changing over time.
Your assignment for today is to replace our rod printing routine with a C
function of your own design. The routine that you come up with should write,
to a file, a Maple command that will animate the results computed by your
program. If you do everything correctly, you will be able to include this file
into Maple and visualize the cooling of the rod.
In the final two sections, we will look at what you need to do to produce the
required animation in Maple and at what modifications are
required to your program.
Joseph L. Zachary
Hamlet Project
Department of Computer Science
University of Utah