Matrix manipulations, anyone?

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  • I am in the process of trying to build a DC circuit simulator similar to the excellent one available at phet.colorado.edu. In order to make it work, I will need to do some matrix manipulations, specifically, computing the inverse of a matrix of size n x n and matrix multiplication.

    Has anyone attempted to do this in Construct 2?

    Methinks an extension to the Array plugin would be really cool...

  • This sounds like much more than an array plugin extension. You can probably achieve this easily enough with an existing javascript matrix library though, or even build a plugin around an existing library.

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  • So I've tried the following so far to recursively compute an array determinant:

    1. I've created an object called "array" in the layout. On start of layout I set all of the values for each XY.

    2. Each time I call the "computedeterminant" function, I create a new, smaller array of (n-1) x (n-1) for the next step in the recursion.

    3. My plan was to pick a value from the smaller array, set it to a temporary variable, then plug that value into the bigger array.

    It looks like my smaller arrays aren't getting filled properly because I can't pick the original by UID.

  • I smell a job for the hound

  • Picking problem is solved with the "System -> Pick All" condition. Thank you Yann for the excellent picking video!

    On to other troubleshooting...

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    So here is my most recent attempt. It looks like the value of the local variable "determinant" is being reset inappropriately in a recursion loop. Maybe a javascript variable scope issue?

  • The determinant is now computed correctly. The problem appears to be that loopindex("x") is in the global scope. In other words, if you recursively call a function with for() loops in it, it will always reference the first time you called a loop of that name. The solution was to uniquely identify the loop with a different name in each iteration.

    In this case, instead of calling a for() loop with the tag "i", I called the for loop with the tag "i"&n, where n is the current size of the matrix I am working with. This is unique for each level of the recursion.

    See the attached image for the solution.

    Ashley, is recursion supposed to work this way? Or am I missing something?

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