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In middle school, we had a math teacher with an old mac setup that ran a physics simulator program. It came with a variety of starter templates, one of them was
by bredren 5y ago
In middle school, we had a math teacher with an old mac setup that ran a physics simulator program. It came with a variety of starter templates, one of them was this crash test dummy in a car.
It was all polygons, but you could hit run and the car would accelerate and hit a wall then the circle head and arms would sort of fly around.
Anyone know what this software was? I remember running and re-running little simulations repeatedly, with little understanding of the science but very much enjoying the ragdoll physics of it.
- gordon_freeman 5y agoMATLAB or something from MathWorks?
- sirmarksalot 5y agoI remember two programs like that, one that my middle school had called "Fun Physics," and one my high school had called "Conceptual Physics." The interfaces were exactly the same, and it wouldn't surprise me if Conceptual Physics was a rebundled version sold along with Paul Hewitt's course. Unfortunately, those names are so generic that I can't find them on Google.
- Throw6away 5y agoYou could author workspaces in Working Model and I dimly remember Fun Physics was built using WM.
- aasasd 5y agoOld software can frequently be found on archive.org—with much more focused selection than ‘the whole web’.
- jrowley 5y agoOh wow, I remember this for sure. What a throw back. What was it called?
- Throw6away 5y agoWorking Model, by Knowledge Revolution. I used to work there, and my first project was making the jump from 2D to 3D.
- bcjordan 5y agoAny stories / surprising bits from working there?
- pmarreck 5y agoI was going to say Interactive Physics but I think that came prior to that, by the same people
- tambourine_man 5y agoThis is why I love this orange site.
- bombcar 5y agoLogged in users can change that color. For me it’s green.
- tambourine_man 5y agoYou’re missing out
- ASalazarMX 5y agoGreen is best, although that orange bar reminds me of Hercules monitors.
- taneq 5y agoOh man, there’s a 3D version? I has endless fun playing with the 2D one in the uni computer lab.
- Throw6away 5y agohttps://www.design-simulation.com/wm2d/ https://www.design-simulation.com/wm2d/