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I'm editing my post by giving all the code I have until now. I'd like to write a program which "unravels" randomly and piece by piece a given image. At the moment, I'm using an image randomly created with Image[] (endImage), and I'm starting with a grey background (whitePart and beginImage). I divide the image in partNumber x partNumber parts (here 10):

partNumber = 10;
allParts = Flatten[Outer[List, Range[1, partNumber], Range[1, partNumber]], 1];
endImage = ImagePartition[
   Image@RandomReal[1, {400, 400}]
   ,
   400/partNumber];
whitePart = Image@Table[0.5, {400/partNumber}, {400/partNumber}];
beginImage = Table[whitePart, {partNumber}, {partNumber}];

(* After that, I create a random ordering of the unraveling of the parts with *)

replaceOrdering = RandomSample[allParts];

(* Then, a short function which replaces beginImage part number indexNumber with endImage part indexNumber: *)

replacePartWithNumber[tableOfParts_, indexNumber_] :=
 ReplacePart[tableOfParts,
  replaceOrdering[[indexNumber]] -> 
   endImage[[Apply[Sequence, replaceOrdering[[indexNumber]]]]]]

(* Creation of the list with recursion: *)

stage[1] = replacePartWithNumber[ beginImage, 1];
stage[n_] := replacePartWithNumber[stage[n - 1], n]

(* which finally gives the Animate command: *)

Animate[
 ImageAssemble@stage[n]
 ,
 {n, 1, Length@replaceOrdering, 1}
 , DefaultDuration -> 10
 , AnimationRepetitions -> 1]

This works for values of partNumber till ca. 25. But with partNumber = 40 or =50, Mathematica crashes immediately...

Any idea why this is? Any help greatly appreciated!

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  • $\begingroup$ There is no way anyone can help you without knowing hoq sequence is defined. $\endgroup$
    – m_goldberg
    Nov 19 '13 at 8:56
  • $\begingroup$ How can we judge if you provide no information on your sequence? Your error message does not seem to be memory-related, are the frames generated by a function or is sequence an array of images? $\endgroup$
    – Yves Klett
    Nov 19 '13 at 8:56
  • $\begingroup$ My bad: I'm editing my post right now! $\endgroup$
    – Gabriel
    Nov 19 '13 at 9:32
  • $\begingroup$ You start your animation with n = 0. Perhaps that's what's wrong... $\endgroup$
    – cormullion
    Nov 19 '13 at 9:58
  • $\begingroup$ @cormullion: even when changing the start of the animation to n=1, Mathematica still crashes... $\endgroup$
    – Gabriel
    Nov 19 '13 at 10:01
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With large values for partNumber, I get the message

$RecursionLimit::reclim: Recursion depth of 1024 exceeded. >>

The fix would be to increase $RecursionLimit.

Animate[Block[{$RecursionLimit = 10000}, ImageAssemble@stage[n]],
 {n, 1, Length@replaceOrdering, 1}, DefaultDuration -> 10, 
 AnimationRepetitions -> 1]

There would be no need for this fix, if the recursion were eliminated, like this:

stage[n_] := 
 ReplacePart[beginImage, 
  Thread[Take[replaceOrdering, n] -> Extract[endImage, Take[replaceOrdering, n]]]]
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