Show the effect of different decaying averages

gistfile1.txt

import random
import math

multipliers = (0.5, 0.8, 0.95, 0.99, 0.995)
values = [1] * len(multipliers)

for x in xrange(400):
  numberline = ["-"] * 101
  for index, multiplier in enumerate(multipliers):
    if index == 0:
      values[index] = 1 if math.sin(x/5.0) + math.cos(x/2.0) + random.uniform(-1, 1) > 0 else 0
    else:
      values[index] = values[index] * multiplier + values[0] * (1 - multiplier)
    numberline[int(values[index] * 100)] = str(index)
  print "".join(numberline)