A procedural question before the main question... 1) What's the recommended way of searching the recent archive of eclipse-clp-users? There doesn't appear to be a dedicated search box, and placing "eclipse-clp-users" in SF's searchbox doesn't seem to have any effect, and since it's hosted by SF I can't use Google's site: constraint. I couldn't find help in the FAQ for this project either. 2) I'm trying to define a problem, and haven't been able to find the right guidance in the tutorial, examples, nor ref manual to tell me if it's feasible in ECLiPSe or not. Here it is: There are a large number of colored dots at integer coordinates throughout a 2D space. I'm only interested in red dots that appear in an area defined by a set of linear or quadratic equations. I would like to declare a set variable that is constrained by the equations (using $>= and so on), then declare a coordinate variable constrained to be "in" the set, and then use that coordinate variable in a search (e.g. "(red CoordVar)"). Ideally, the set or coordinate variables would be setup under a specialized predicate (aka within a subroutine) so it could be reused easily. I realize that I might have to map each 2D coordinate to a unique integer value in order to get things working. (This is why I used ic_sets in my earlier example.) Tutorial 9.4, "Finding solutions of real constraints" provides an example of a space defined by hyperplanes which is temptingly close to my problem, but it's not clear whether the vars can be constrained in a subroutine nor how to activate the delayed goals. Here's a first pass: :- lib(ic). setupScenario :- assert( red([1,1]) ), /* within space of interest; should be one and only solution */ assert( red([2,2]) ). /* not within space of interest */ /* imagine thousands more colored dot definitions here */ setupSpaceOfInterest(X, Y) :- X #:: -4..4, Y #:: -4..4, 4 $>= X^2 + Y^2, 4 $>= (X-1)^2 + (Y-1)^2, Y $>= X. findRedsInSpaceOfInterest :- setupScenario, setupSpaceOfInterest(X, Y), findall([X,Y],red([X,Y]),CoordinatesOfAllRedsInSpaceOfInterest). ?- findRedsInSpaceOfInterest. There are 13 delayed goals. Yes (0.00s cpu)Received on Wed Aug 12 2009 - 06:31:56 CEST
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