[reactive] Bounce

[Conal Elliott]

Hi Greg.

I'd use a couple of integrals and a snapshot, and the result would indeed be
recursive.  I carefully designed the semantics of reactivity to make this
sort of thing possible.  In particular, switcher switches immediately after
event occurrences.  Not "one tick" or some such (since Reactive is based on
continuous time), but really immediately.  Thus snapshotting a behavior at
the moment it switches gets the pre-event-occurrence value.  This sort of
formulation worked fine in Fran and was great fun.

Now here's the temporary bad news:  Currently, there's a bug in the Reactive
implementation, and this sort of (recursive) example locks up. :(  Creighton
is looking into it.  http://trac.haskell.org/reactive/ticket/1 .

  - Conal

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Greg Fitzgerald <garious at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I make a Behavior of a bouncing motion?  I want to reverse the
> velocity when the object goes beyond a certain position, but since the
> position depends on the velocity, I have a loop.  Is there a way to
> make recursive behaviors, or am I going about this all wrong?
>
> bouncingPosition :: Behavior Double
> bouncingPosition = ???
>
> bouncingVelocity :: Double -> Behavior TimeT -> Behavior Double
> bouncingVelocity v0 t = velocityB v0 t `switcher` ???
>
> collision :: Event a -> Behavior Double -> Event Double
> collision e = once . filterMP (< -2) . snapshot_ e
>
> positionB :: Double -> Behavior Double -> Behavior Double -> Behavior
> Double
> positionB x0 v t = (x0 +) <$> liftA2 (*) v t
>
> velocityB :: Double -> Behavior Double -> Behavior Double
> velocityB v0 t = velocity v0 <$> t
>
> velocity :: Double -> TimeT -> Double
> velocity v0 t = v0 - 9.8 * t
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
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