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+/*
+ * Weds Oct 20th 2010
+ *
+ * Helping a friend with some homework, decided to do it for myself for fun.
+ *
+ * CS142 - BYU Fall Semester 2010 - Hotplate Lab
+ * 
+ * The spec is like this:
+ *
+ * use a 2-d array representing a (18x18) plate with 4 edges (20x20 total) touching
+ * two sides against a maximum (100) temperature surface (the first and last rows)
+ * and the others against a minimum (0) temperature surface (the first and last columns)
+ *
+ * Each instant the temperature of a given point on the plate (hotplate[x][y])
+ * is calculated by averaging the top, bottom, left, and right points onto
+ * the point itself.
+ *
+ * Find the number of instances it takes until the difference between the previous
+ * and current temperature of the point which has changed the most in temperature
+ * is less than 0.1 units.
+ * 
+ * Output the temperature of each point during that instant as a CSV.
+ * View the results in a spreadsheet.
+ *
+ */
+
+var HotPlate = {};
+(function () {
+  var hotplate = [
+    [  0, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0,   0 ],
+    [  0, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100,   0 ]
+  ];
+
+  // This is code I used to generate the array above (with a few minor modifications)
+
+  /*
+  var result = "[\n", i, j;
+  result += '[';
+  for (j = 0; j < 20; j += 1) {
+    result += '100, ';
+  }
+  result += '],\n';
+  for (i = 2; i < 20; i += 1) {
+    result += '[';
+    for (j = 0; j < 20; j += 1) {
+      result += '  0, ';
+    }
+    result += '],\n';
+  }
+  result += '[';
+  for (j = 0; j < 20; j += 1) {
+    result += '100, ';
+  }
+  result += '],\n';
+  result += ']\n';
+
+  console.log(result);
+  */
+
+  function find_steady_state_temperature() {
+    var row,
+      column,
+      sum, // the sum of surrounding cells
+      original, // the value of a cell before the change
+      variance, // the max of all the variances
+      allowed_variance = 0.1, // how much any cell may vary in temperature from one instance to the next.
+      // 0.000000000000001 is the lowest you can go. If you try zero it will run forever (IEEE floating-point errors?)
+      repeat = true, // if the base condition has yet to be met
+      count = 0, // safeguard in case the base-case logic is incorrect
+      max_count = 10000000000000000;
+
+    while (true === repeat && count < max_count) {
+      variance = 0;
+      for (row = 1; row < 19; row += 1) {
+        for (column = 1; column < 19; column += 1) {
+          original = hotplate[row][column];
+
+          sum = 0;
+          sum += hotplate[row-1][column];
+          sum += hotplate[row][column-1];
+          sum += hotplate[row+1][column];
+          sum += hotplate[row][column+1];
+          hotplate[row][column] = sum / 4;
+
+          variance = Math.max(hotplate[row][column] - original, variance);
+        }
+      }
+      repeat = variance >= allowed_variance;
+      count += 1;
+    }
+    if (max_count === count) {
+      console.log("EPIC FAIL");
+    } else {
+      console.log("SUCCESS in just " + count + " instances!");
+    }
+  }
+
+  function inspect() {
+    var result = '', str = '';
+    for (i = 0; i < 20; i += 1) {
+      for (j = 0; j < 20; j += 1) {
+        str = hotplate[i][j].toFixed(1).toString();
+        while (str.length < 5) {
+          str = ' ' + str;
+        }
+        str += ', ';
+        result += str;
+      }
+      result += '\n';
+    }
+
+    console.log(result);
+  }
+
+  HotPlate.inspect = inspect;
+  HotPlate.calculate_steady_state_temperature = find_steady_state_temperature;
+}());
+
+HotPlate.calculate_steady_state_temperature();
+HotPlate.inspect();