• via Marine Technology Reporter September 2009
• http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2009/10/large-wind
• pdafriendly

From virtually nothing in 2000, the industry today can boast 1.5 GW of installed offshore wind capacity, of which 334 MW – more than one fifth – was installed in 2008 alone, see Figure 1, (below). An additional 1.5 GW is currently under construction, and Douglas-Westwood forecasts more than 5 GW will be in the water by 2012.

(defprocess root (fuzziness)
 (defvariable blobs #’union)
 (always
  (when (eq (read-sensor ’image) ’black)
   (subprocess (measure-blob) :gradient fuzziness)
   (setf blobs
    (list (get-from-sub (measure-blob) blob)))))
 (avoid
  (read-sensor ’query)
  (let ((q (first (read-sensor ’query))))
   (cond
    ((eq q ’blobs)
     (actuate ’response (regional blobs)))
    ((eq q ’area)
     (actuate ’response
      (fold #’+ (mapcar #’second
       (regional blobs)))))))))
(defprocess measure-blob ()
 (defvariable uid #’max :atomic :base 0 :init (random 1))
 (defvariable area #’sum :reduction :base 0 :init 1)
 (defvariable blob :local)
 (always
  (setf blob (list uid area))))

Code to find a set of fuzzy blobs and their areas in a binary image. Each contiguous black area of the image runs a connected measure-blob pro- cess that names it and calculates its area. The set of blobs is collected by the root process and made accessible to the user on the response actuator...

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