ObliquePath.hoc

// This template creates the Basal Path lists, starting from the
// section attached to the trunk and ending with the basal tip section 
// written by Terrence Brannon, modified by Yiota Poirazi, July 2001, poirazi@LNC.usc.edu

begintemplate ObliquePath

public dtrunk_to_tip, trunk_section, root_oblique

strdef sexec

objref trunk_section
strdef trunk_section_name

objref root_oblique
strdef root_oblique_name

objref tip_section
strdef tip_section_name

objref oblique_path

proc init () {
  sec_count=0

  forsec $o1 {

    if (sec_count==1) {
       root_oblique    = new SectionRef()
       root_oblique_name=secname()
    }
      
    if (!sec_count) {
       distance(0,1)
       trunk_section  = new SectionRef()
       trunk_section_name=secname()
      }
    sec_count=sec_count+1

    tip_section    = new SectionRef()
    tip_section_name=secname()
  }

  access root_oblique.sec
  distance(0,0)
  access tip_section.sec
  dtrunk_to_tip=distance(1,1)

//  printf("ObliquePath trunk_section: %s root_oblique: %s tip_section: %s distance between root_oblique and tip_section: %g\n", trunk_section_name, root_oblique_name, tip_section_name, dtrunk_to_tip)
}

endtemplate ObliquePath