fyi... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian Jordan <brian [ at ] laptop [ dot ] org> Date: 2008/7/10 Subject: [OLPC library] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids! To: library [ at ] lists [ dot ] laptop [ dot ] org, sugar [ at ] lists [ dot ] laptop [ dot ] org, games [ at ] lists [ dot ] laptop [ dot ] org Hi friends! Physics is a physics playground for the XO currently being written by myself and Alex Levenson. We hope it will be a fun tool for playing with and learning physical concepts, and that the work of the Physics/Elements teams can be used as a backend for making all activities fun and interactive. Get it at: http://dev.laptop.org/~bjordan/Physics-0.2.xo (click in Browse to install) Join the fight against everything other than Physics! Wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Physics IRC: irc.freenode.net #olpc-physics We are having a meeting at 6:30pm EST today on #sugar (irc.freenode.net) with key XO-physicists. Join us! Git: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=activities/physics Physics currently supports: - Creating: triangles, boxes, circles - Drawing: polygons, "magic pen" shapes - Grabbing objects - Connecting objects with joints - Destroying objects with a fun to use red path of destruction Physics currently uses a default Earth-style (pointing downward) gravity, friction, size-based masses and a set of colors which are randomly picked when an object is created. We are working on simple-to-use contextual menus for modifying and visualizing these parameters in the activity. We are planning to add many other tools and toys in Physics, and encourage suggestions (drawings/diagrams!), bug reports and code contributions from other developers. Physics (by way of Elements and pyBox2D) uses the open source 2D C++ physics engine Box2D2 as a back end, which has a lot of functionality that we haven't implemented yet. Cheers, Brian Jordan 3D intern trapped in a 2D world _______________________________________________ Library mailing list Library [ at ] lists [ dot ] laptop [ dot ] org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library -- P Πριν εκτυπώσετε αυτό το μήνυμα, σκεφθείτε το περιβάλλον! Ένα χαρτί λιγότερο! - http://karounos.gr/blog/