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From: cn09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher Kalevi Nuuja)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Cyclic Nets in AVS
Message-ID: <0bCkZGq00WB7A90mte@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 90 19:53:54 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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--> Solution: Create TAP module which uses unix sleep call to wait 20 seconds and
output an integer asynchronously.  This becomes the impetus for the data
module to fire.  tap->science->geometry->render->write.  Kind o' Kludgy.

I solved the problem by writing an input coroutine module.  Coroutines
execute whenever they please.  There is a routine called AVScorout_wait()
that halts the module from executing again until the network is done
processing the the last data it sent out.  The module takes as inputs
a file base name, a low bound, and a highbound.  It executes by loading
filebase.lowbound.fld, sending it out as output, waiting for the network
to process it, then loading filebase.lowbound+1.fld, etc.  It can either
stop at the high bound, or set the filenumber back to lowbound and simply
cycle through the files.  No kludge at all.

Chris Nuuja
Pittsburgh SuperComputing Center
nuuja@a.psc.edu
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