Fluid simulation tutorial in javascript, values never initialized?

Question

I am looking at this snippet in a fluid simulation tutorial.

I have searched for where those values are initialised and it seems they are never written to? There is a line that initialises the array this.s.

this.s = new Float32Array(this.fNumCells);

However, past that, I fail to see a single write into it. There's multiple reads throughout the code.

e.g.:

var s = this.s[center];
var sx0 = this.s[left];
var sx1 = this.s[right];
var sy0 = this.s[bottom];
var sy1 = this.s[top];

Am I missing something? I am not that familiar with javascript but under the assumption that declaring an array with a known size defaults initialises its values to 0, my current reading of the code suggests this snippet is not doing anything, since s would always be 0 and it would be skipped?

But when I run it in the browser and use a console.log statement to inspect s, it does have values I see s = 3, 4 etc...

How does it have any values?

Andrew Parks · Accepted Answer · 2023-03-28 05:59:27Z

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It is updated, here:

f.s[i*n + j] = s

answered Mar 28, 2023 at 5:59

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