Getting started with MIT Proto
- by Charles
MIT Proto lacks a basic getting started guide. How do I find a shell that accepts commands like (def foo...) and proto -n 1000 -l -m ...?
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/stpg/proto.html
I can run in my bash shell:
./proto -n 1000 -s 0.1 -T -l "(red (gradient (= (mid) 0)))"
I can't figure out how to run e.g. channel.proto:
(def channel (src dst width)
(let* ((d (distance src dst))
(trail (<= (+ (gradient src) (gradient dst)) (+ d 0.01))) ;; float error
;; (trail (= (+ (gradient src) (gradient dst)) d))
)
(dilate trail width)))
;; To see a channel calculated from geometric primitives, run:
;; proto -n 1000 -l -m -s 0.5 "(blue (channel (sense 1) (sense 2) 10))"
;; click on a device and hit 't' to set up the source, then click on
;; another device and hit 'y' to designate the destination. At first
;; every device will be blue, but then it should clear and you should
;; see a thick blue path connecting the two devices you selected.
Thanks!
P.S. Somebody please tag this mit-proto. I can't.
