Kamaelia.Support.Particles.MultipleLaws

• Particle Physics Laws for multiple particles
  • Example Usage
  • How does it work?

Particle Physics Laws for multiple particles

A class implementing laws for interactions between multiple particle types, in discrete time simulations. Can be used with the physics ParticleSystem class. This implementation supports different parameters for interactions between different particle types.

You specify a mapping between pairs of types of particles and the set of laws to apply between them.

This class provides the same methods as the SimpleLaws class. It is a drop in replacement for when you wish to specialise a physics model to apply different laws depending on the types of particles involved.

Example Usage

For two types of particle "Entity" and "Attribute": - Entities only repel each other - Attributes bond at a distance of 200 units - Attributes bond to entities at a distance of 50 units

mapping = { ("Entity","Entity") :SimpleLaws(maxBondForce=0, repulsionStrength=10),
            ("Attribute","Attribute") : SimpleLaws(bondLength=200),
            ("Entity","Attribute") : SimpleLaws(bondLength=50),
          }

laws = MultipleLaws( typesToLaws=mapping,
                   )

How does it work?

It provides the same method interface as the SimpleLaws class, but applies different sets of laws depending on the particle types passed when methods are called (SimpleLaws always applies the same rules irrespective).

The different laws provided are stored with the specified mappings. If you specify a mapping for (typeA,typeB), then it will also be applied to (typeB,typeA). You do not need to specify the mappings both ways round, though you may if you wish.

If you do not specify the complete set of mappings for the particle types to all of each other, then a default law (if specified) will be used to fill in the gaps.

Note that the default law does not get applied to particle types not mentioned when in the mappings you provide. For example, if your mappings only cover particle types 'A','B', and 'C', then interactions involving a new type 'D' will cause an exception to be raised.

The 'maximum interaction radius' for a given particle type is set to the maximum of the interaction radii for all the different interaction laws it is involved in.

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