Hi Philip,
> Doing nice formulas in Pharo would be of interest to me. And > manipulating them even more (I am busy with that now). So this make one project of interest for the community. > As for Geogebra as competition, these guys are now doing a ton of 3D (we > use GG here with my wife, a maths teacher) and their DSL is pretty > useful once mastered. I find myself constructing a lot of things from > the little "command prompt" of theirs. That would be an interesting > addition to DrGeo (and why not being GG-compatible on the commands). Yes, should be easy to do. Dr. Geo already comes with a nice API to describe geometry object with Smalltalk. It could be hooked to an existing canvas. > DrGeo is Java-free, so where can we use it where Java is not fine? I am not sure, but I think even ARM architecture comes with some sort of optimization for Java. Smalltalk is hard winner when the host architecture comes without OS. (i.e. SqueakNOS). > I'll look at what I can propose for engineers to work on. I'd add that a > solver for constraints would be nice to have (like Simplex). Do you have any ideas about case use of Simplex in Dr. Geo? > Also, a good thing to add to DrGeo is a window with a list of entities > with their name and possibility to rename/change attributes from there. > Once the things get complex, this is a godsend in GeoGebra... Yes, I use to have that feature in Dr. Geo 1.1 many years ago. It will appear in someway in DrGeoII, but hopefully with Smalltalkish spirit, not sure how yet. Thanks Hilaire
