The TIPE (travaux d'initiative personnelle encadrés / supervised personal initiative work) aims to confront students in preparatory classes with the life of an engineer. For two years, the students have to work on a project while they already have a lot of personal work to do in the other subjects. The final objective is an oral exam, which I did not take because of the COVID-19. Having been warned in March that the test would be cancelled, my code can still be greatly improved (in terms of speed and efficiency) but it works and gives good results.
Besides having to include two school subjects from my major, the project had to fit into the Ocean theme. So I decided to deal with the movement of microparticles in water. After spending the first year of preparatory class working on the aspects of particle displacement from a physical point of view, in the 2nd year I tried the computer side. So I did these 3 different sub-projects.
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- Program Virtual_Lake
- Program Leman Lake
- Program Groix_Island
In this first project I simply tried to simulate the movement of particles in a square with currents forming a kind of syphon. The objective is to see if the movement of the particles works.
For this project I started with a map of Lake Geneva with the currents, which I entered into a table manually. Then using the functions of the first program I dropped several particles into the lake and created several images to visualize the displacements.
- Initial placement of the particles
- Beaches with the most stranded particles
- Particle placement after a few moves
- Superposition of the movement of all particles (stranded particles are in red)
- Displacement of a non-grounded particle
- Displacement of a particle having left the lake
For my last programme, the main objective was to automate everything. So for the first time I tackled image processing. Using an image from a database (https://data.shom.fr/), I wanted to model the movement of particles in the ocean. This gave me an image like the one below. The displacement seems very geometric but the idea was in the long run to superimpose several maps and create a large displacement map of micro-particles.
Lucas MARQUET - lucasmarquet63800@gmail.com