Long runtime when video visualization is enabled

[Timi-G]

Simulation runtime is very long when video visualization is enabled.

Video visualization is currently achieved by:

• Generating plots with Matplotlib and saving as images in an images folder in root directory of branch
• OS gets each image in images directory and joined to a list.
• Unsorted images list is sorted in lexicographic order of file name > e.g. image_1, image_2, image_3...
• Each image is eventually joined and converted to video using OpenCV

Problem Identified

The I/O operation of accessing folders and accompanying processes seems to slow the whole program.

[Timi-G]

Temporary Solution

Video visualization has been removed (commented out) in a no video visualization branch, increasing code runtime

Proposed Solution

Save Matplotlib figure in a pickle instead, which is done as bytes and hence will reduce runtime

Visualization file in existing branches can be found here:

• Master Branch
• VS Code Version