PhET Progress Report
July 2, 2008
An online version of this report is available here.
Here’s a pie chart representation of the time distribution.
Highlights
New in
0.00.52
Finished adding fast food meal and coffee drink to menu
Increased columns in balanced food slider
Added calculation for body fat % based on height, weight and activity
level
Added initial implementation of muscle and fat mass loss
Added initial implementation of heart strength/strain
New in 0.00.51
Fixed: Play area scale doesn't respect control panel height.
Fixed: Default height was 6'4" (should probably be put back to 5-8 or
5-6 for female?)
Fixed: New sliders need to update when units change english/metric
Fixed: New sliders need limits on type-in values
Added aligned layout for sliders
Fixed: If I set a value beyond the slider, the arrow comes up (very
nice) but the tip of the arrow is cut off.
Fixed Layout: Move up baseline of buttons and bar chart, make graphs
fill width and height
Fixed: The "Starving" message did not come up immediately below a
certain body fat (4% female / 2% male). It came up only after body fat
reached 0% (as far as I could tell).
Fixed: If I set a height and weight and adjust body fat, the muscles
get smaller, but the rest of the body does not get bigger.
Added activity level combo box to control panel.
New in 0.00.50
Changed starving message to “Starving!”
Changed game over OK button to “Restart”
Changed heart attack message to "Increased risk of heart attack."
Fixed: Chart seems to skip from half values to integral values
Inverted y-values for health indicator (so that y=0 is at the bottom)
Removed popup-question mark button for old version of heart BMI readout
Arms and legs bulge based on muscle %
New in 0.00.49
Added a "Game Over" message to the text messages.
Made starvation threshold gender-specific
Added developer controls for heart attack scenario
Misc
·
Deployed wave
interference sims with different particle counts
Helped delpoy nuclear physics, investigate permissions issues
Investigated "english sim launches as japanese" issue
Upcoming Work
Fitness
Simulation
Improvements for CCK
Discuss
translation & deployment of Flash sims, with Mike & Chris &
Dano
Japanese
translator reports getting Japanese version when clicking on the
English link
Adding
controls to the Wave Interference application to improve particle view
Trish
had
several recommendations for the Energy Skate Park application for usage
in
November, needs Wendy's feedback
