Question

I have been dealing many days with a problem without any success. In my programm I define a list, let’s call it “L”, by shifting a single geometrical object, a circle, many times. So L is composed by manu circles. The object circle is also a list which contains its properties: center (center . #V), (height . H), radius (radius . R), and so on. So, the property radius is a pair in the 3rd position of the list circle. If I do (object-property-value circle ‘radius) = R. Now, what I want to do is to create a new list, L-disorder, composed by circles with the same positions of those of L but each with different (random) radius. Then, I try this:

(define L-disorder (map
                     (lambda(obj) 
                      (set-cdr! (list-ref obj 3) (random:normal))
                     obj)
                     L))

My problem is that it changes the radius of all the circles the same way! And I want a different (random) value for all of them.

I would really thank any help or advise!!

Answer 1

If you want to create new list, you shouldn’t use mutation functons (set-cdr!).
(map ) functions do all the magic for you: it iterates over source list, and creates new list.

 (define L-disorder 
   (map (lambda (circle)
      ; here we creating new circle
      (list (car circle) (cadr circle) (random:normal)))
    L))