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Re: Physics Objects and Squeak 3.10

by Karl-19 :: Rate this Message:

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Joe Apuzzo wrote:

> I'm new to the list and have slowly been learning Squeak over the last
> few weeks. I want to develop lessons for kids starting in 3rd grade up
> to 5th grade ( thus using eToys as the main interface )
>
> I recently came across Phun ( http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki ) which is a
> really great Physics simulator. But it's a toy and lacks the rich
> environment that Squeak has for introducing, planning and accomplishing
> a "class project".
>
> I know that there is ODECo for Squeak (
> http://languagegame.org:8888/ggame/15 ) but
> 1) It only runs at on 3.7
> 2) Only has a few objects to work with
> 3) Does not have settings for friction, density and bounce
> 4) Does not have the concept of liquid and gas
>  
Gas can be simulated with Kedama which is fully integrated with Etoys.
There are also some other simple implementations of different physics
like Manzana http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2971
Karl

> Therefor is there any work on adding objects to eToys that have Physics
>  attributes like those in Phun? If not, is anyone interested?
>
> Yours humbly;
>
> Gnu Joe
> Joseph Apuzzo
> www.mhvlug.org
>
>
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