On 17 Jun 2009, at 06:29, Edward Cherlin wrote: > Did you look at my Turtle Art version of Alan Kay's third-grade > gravity lesson? > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/File:Gravity.odt
I had a read, but it didn't get me very far, sorry – competing with an Alan Kay presentation is always going to be tough :-) Regarding Physics, it's more a sandbox for making weird and wonderful little mechanical devices; but specifically regarding gravity, I think there is a nice feature I'd like to try and find a way add as some point, 'object trails'. With this you could roll a ball off a cliff edge and see the motion curve left behind. Would be quite easy to add a grid overlay to allow measurement. I guess an optional gird would also allow building other more accurate experiments (i.e. I just made 3 pendulums of different lengths to see the shortest pendulum swing faster; and that using a larger mass weight did not affect frequency). --Gary > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Brian Jordan<[email protected]> > wrote: >> Attaching Sugar Devel (people who want to be involved with Physics >> development might be on there). >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Asaf Paris >> Mandoki<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've managed to get my development environment working and started >>> hacking >>> the Physics activity. I added a "pin" button and a "motor" button >>> so these >>> features aren't hidden anymore. I wanted to add a Play/Pause >>> button but it's >>> not as easy as I thought. It is much better to control time flow >>> with the >>> keyboard but I think it would be good to have a way to make the >>> feature >>> explicit. I'm planing on committing my changes to the main branch >>> as soon as >>> I come up with a nicer icon for the motor button. >>> >> >> Commit it :) >> >> Would anyone like to help with making menu icons? >> >>> After I'm done with that I'm thinking on starting with the journal >>> integration. I will clone the main branch and work over there. >>> I've seen >>> some suggestions for the scene file format at >>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Physics_File_Format . Is there a handy >>> XML library >>> I could use? >>> >>> I see the Physics component is now on dev.sugarlabs.org. I've >>> added a bug I >>> found, should I add the features I would like to implement in the >>> future? . >>> What is the best way for communicating regarding this project? Who >>> are the >>> people involved right now? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Asaf >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > > > -- > Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/ > دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name > And Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. > http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
