awesome-attractor/main.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <valarray>

#include "Attractor.hpp"
#include "Canvas.hpp"
#include "Projector.hpp"

#include "defines.hpp"

/*
 I compared the performance of C-style arrays with valarray. My conclusion is that accessing and setting elements makes no difference (sometimes C-syle array's were just 2% faster, but sometimes valarray was 2% faster (5000000 samples)). But the allocation and initialisation of the valrray was like 30% faster, so it might be a good idea to change my C-style array to valarray. It is also nicer in use, one can use functions like sum, etc. How valarray manages memory may also be more efficient, but all i know is that a valarray<double> is bigger than a double* (in means of sizeof()), but that is not really an issue. So valarray!!!
*/

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

	clock_t start, end;
	double totalTime, totalIterations;

	bool verbose = false;

	// initialising stuff
	Attractor myAttractor(ATTRACTOR_FILE);

	Projector projection;
	Canvas canvas(WIDTH, HEIGHT, 3);
	projection.canvas = &canvas;

	myAttractor.projectors.push_back(&projection);
	myAttractor.init_range();

	projection.output();

	unsigned int iterations = ITERATIONS;
	start = clock();
	for ( unsigned int j = 1; j <= 100; j++ ) {
		for ( unsigned int i = 0; i <= iterations; i++ ) {
			myAttractor.iterate();
			myAttractor.plot();
		}
		if (verbose) {
			myAttractor.output();
			std::cout << j << "% done" << std::endl;
		}
	}
	end = clock();

	totalIterations = 100.0*iterations;
	totalTime = ((double)(end-start)/(double)(CLOCKS_PER_SEC));
	std::cout << std::endl << "total clock time: " << totalTime << std::endl;
	std::cout << "average iterations per second: " << totalIterations/((double)(end-start)/(double)(CLOCKS_PER_SEC)) << std::endl << std::endl;

	// saving output
	start = clock();
	canvas.output_file();
	end = clock();

	totalTime = ((double)(end-start)/(double)(CLOCKS_PER_SEC));

	std::cout << "total clock time for writing png: " << totalTime << std::endl;
	std::cout << std::endl << "Awesome Attractor, version " << __DATE__ << std::endl;


	return 0;
}