198 lines
7.4 KiB
Tcl
198 lines
7.4 KiB
Tcl
# pendulum.tcl --
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#
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# This demonstration illustrates how Tcl/Tk can be used to construct
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# simulations of physical systems.
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if {![info exists widgetDemo]} {
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error "This script should be run from the \"widget\" demo."
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}
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package require Tk
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set w .pendulum
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catch {destroy $w}
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toplevel $w
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wm title $w "Pendulum Animation Demonstration"
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wm iconname $w "pendulum"
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positionWindow $w
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label $w.msg -font $font -wraplength 4i -justify left -text "This demonstration shows how Tcl/Tk can be used to carry out animations that are linked to simulations of physical systems. In the left canvas is a graphical representation of the physical system itself, a simple pendulum, and in the right canvas is a graph of the phase space of the system, which is a plot of the angle (relative to the vertical) against the angular velocity. The pendulum bob may be repositioned by clicking and dragging anywhere on the left canvas."
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pack $w.msg
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## See Code / Dismiss buttons
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set btns [addSeeDismiss $w.buttons $w]
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pack $btns -side bottom -fill x
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# Create some structural widgets
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pack [panedwindow $w.p] -fill both -expand 1
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$w.p add [labelframe $w.p.l1 -text "Pendulum Simulation"]
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$w.p add [labelframe $w.p.l2 -text "Phase Space"]
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# Create the canvas containing the graphical representation of the
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# simulated system.
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canvas $w.c -width 320 -height 200 -background white -bd 2 -relief sunken
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$w.c create text 5 5 -anchor nw -text "Click to Adjust Bob Start Position"
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# Coordinates of these items don't matter; they will be set properly below
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$w.c create line 0 25 320 25 -tags plate -fill grey50 -width 2
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$w.c create oval 155 20 165 30 -tags pivot -fill grey50 -outline {}
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$w.c create line 1 1 1 1 -tags rod -fill black -width 3
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$w.c create oval 1 1 2 2 -tags bob -fill yellow -outline black
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pack $w.c -in $w.p.l1 -fill both -expand true
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# Create the canvas containing the phase space graph; this consists of
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# a line that gets gradually paler as it ages, which is an extremely
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# effective visual trick.
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canvas $w.k -width 320 -height 200 -background white -bd 2 -relief sunken
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$w.k create line 160 200 160 0 -fill grey75 -arrow last -tags y_axis
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$w.k create line 0 100 320 100 -fill grey75 -arrow last -tags x_axis
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for {set i 90} {$i>=0} {incr i -10} {
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# Coordinates of these items don't matter; they will be set properly below
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$w.k create line 0 0 1 1 -smooth true -tags graph$i -fill grey$i
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}
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$w.k create text 0 0 -anchor ne -text "\u03b8" -tags label_theta
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$w.k create text 0 0 -anchor ne -text "\u03b4\u03b8" -tags label_dtheta
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pack $w.k -in $w.p.l2 -fill both -expand true
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# Initialize some variables
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set points {}
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set Theta 45.0
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set dTheta 0.0
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set pi 3.1415926535897933
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set length 150
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set home 160
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# This procedure makes the pendulum appear at the correct place on the
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# canvas. If the additional arguments "at $x $y" are passed (the 'at'
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# is really just syntactic sugar) instead of computing the position of
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# the pendulum from the length of the pendulum rod and its angle, the
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# length and angle are computed in reverse from the given location
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# (which is taken to be the centre of the pendulum bob.)
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proc showPendulum {canvas {at {}} {x {}} {y {}}} {
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global Theta dTheta pi length home
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if {$at eq "at" && ($x!=$home || $y!=25)} {
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set dTheta 0.0
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set x2 [expr {$x - $home}]
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set y2 [expr {$y - 25}]
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set length [expr {hypot($x2, $y2)}]
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set Theta [expr {atan2($x2, $y2) * 180/$pi}]
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} else {
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set angle [expr {$Theta * $pi/180}]
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set x [expr {$home + $length*sin($angle)}]
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set y [expr {25 + $length*cos($angle)}]
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}
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$canvas coords rod $home 25 $x $y
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$canvas coords bob \
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[expr {$x-15}] [expr {$y-15}] [expr {$x+15}] [expr {$y+15}]
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}
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showPendulum $w.c
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# Update the phase-space graph according to the current angle and the
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# rate at which the angle is changing (the first derivative with
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# respect to time.)
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proc showPhase {canvas} {
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global Theta dTheta points psw psh
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lappend points [expr {$Theta+$psw}] [expr {-20*$dTheta+$psh}]
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if {[llength $points] > 100} {
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set points [lrange $points end-99 end]
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}
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for {set i 0} {$i<100} {incr i 10} {
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set list [lrange $points end-[expr {$i-1}] end-[expr {$i-12}]]
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if {[llength $list] >= 4} {
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$canvas coords graph$i $list
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}
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}
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}
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# Set up some bindings on the canvases. Note that when the user
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# clicks we stop the animation until they release the mouse
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# button. Also note that both canvases are sensitive to <Configure>
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# events, which allows them to find out when they have been resized by
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# the user.
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bind $w.c <Destroy> {
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after cancel $animationCallbacks(pendulum)
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unset animationCallbacks(pendulum)
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}
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bind $w.c <1> {
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after cancel $animationCallbacks(pendulum)
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showPendulum %W at %x %y
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}
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bind $w.c <B1-Motion> {
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showPendulum %W at %x %y
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}
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bind $w.c <ButtonRelease-1> {
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showPendulum %W at %x %y
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set animationCallbacks(pendulum) [after 15 repeat [winfo toplevel %W]]
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}
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bind $w.c <Configure> {
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%W coords plate 0 25 %w 25
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set home [expr %w/2]
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%W coords pivot [expr $home-5] 20 [expr $home+5] 30
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}
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bind $w.k <Configure> {
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set psh [expr %h/2]
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set psw [expr %w/2]
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%W coords x_axis 2 $psh [expr %w-2] $psh
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%W coords y_axis $psw [expr %h-2] $psw 2
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%W coords label_dtheta [expr $psw-4] 6
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%W coords label_theta [expr %w-6] [expr $psh+4]
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}
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# This procedure is the "business" part of the simulation that does
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# simple numerical integration of the formula for a simple rotational
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# pendulum.
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proc recomputeAngle {} {
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global Theta dTheta pi length
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set scaling [expr {3000.0/$length/$length}]
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# To estimate the integration accurately, we really need to
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# compute the end-point of our time-step. But to do *that*, we
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# need to estimate the integration accurately! So we try this
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# technique, which is inaccurate, but better than doing it in a
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# single step. What we really want is bound up in the
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# differential equation:
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# .. - sin theta
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# theta + theta = -----------
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# length
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# But my math skills are not good enough to solve this!
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# first estimate
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set firstDDTheta [expr {-sin($Theta * $pi/180)*$scaling}]
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set midDTheta [expr {$dTheta + $firstDDTheta}]
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set midTheta [expr {$Theta + ($dTheta + $midDTheta)/2}]
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# second estimate
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set midDDTheta [expr {-sin($midTheta * $pi/180)*$scaling}]
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set midDTheta [expr {$dTheta + ($firstDDTheta + $midDDTheta)/2}]
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set midTheta [expr {$Theta + ($dTheta + $midDTheta)/2}]
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# Now we do a double-estimate approach for getting the final value
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# first estimate
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set midDDTheta [expr {-sin($midTheta * $pi/180)*$scaling}]
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set lastDTheta [expr {$midDTheta + $midDDTheta}]
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set lastTheta [expr {$midTheta + ($midDTheta + $lastDTheta)/2}]
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# second estimate
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set lastDDTheta [expr {-sin($lastTheta * $pi/180)*$scaling}]
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set lastDTheta [expr {$midDTheta + ($midDDTheta + $lastDDTheta)/2}]
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set lastTheta [expr {$midTheta + ($midDTheta + $lastDTheta)/2}]
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# Now put the values back in our globals
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set dTheta $lastDTheta
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set Theta $lastTheta
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}
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# This method ties together the simulation engine and the graphical
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# display code that visualizes it.
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proc repeat w {
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global animationCallbacks
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# Simulate
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recomputeAngle
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# Update the display
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showPendulum $w.c
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showPhase $w.k
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# Reschedule ourselves
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set animationCallbacks(pendulum) [after 15 [list repeat $w]]
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}
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# Start the simulation after a short pause
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set animationCallbacks(pendulum) [after 500 [list repeat $w]]
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