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PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

July 9, 2009

An online version of this report is available here.

Here's a pie chart representation of the time distribution.

Moving Man

· Resolved barrier bugs and go/pause bugs in 1.24, posted to tigercat, see #1697

Force Law Lab

· Sim is about 15 hours old (of my time)

· Posted 0.01.04 here with about 12 minor changes (see link for change docs)

CCK

· Posted a testable version with new physics 3.17.08 and discussed testing with Sam M

JMonkeyEngine

· Tested JMEDesktop on Mac with Java updates, discovered JMEDesktop is still broken on Mac

1. How about using an offscreen PSwingCanvas for rendering and using JMEDesktop for input events?

2. Found a demo of embedding Flex components in 3D

Web Frameworks

· Configuration for local testing of Wicket, with help from Jonathan

· Test deploying Wicket to GAE here

Misc

· Discovered several phet videos online (16 or so), see for example:

· Tested JO's TestGUI

o After JB verifies, this should be the new default

· Updated screenshot and thumbnail for Electric Field of Dreams, see #1654

· Collaborated with JB on animations for radioactive-dating-game

· Scala discussions and IDE testing

Upcoming Work

· Force Law Lab, see google docs here

1. How to handle springs/spring constants for planets?

· CCK

1. Port scripts to Java

2. Performance improvements, e.g. selecting appropriate time step

3. Extensive testing (with Sam M)

· JMonkeyEngine/Xith /3dzzd/Flash/Papervision3d

1. Discussing suitability of Flash for 3D, see #1705

· Continue model for density sim (object editor, movable scales, spherical objects, etc)

1. Postponed until we know whether this will be java or flash

· Ramp Simulation, fixes and updates, including charts

· Work on website samples with Jonathan, including wicket

1. including pricing for EC2 vs GAE vs other hosts

· Numberformatting problems in Moving Man/ar, see #1708

· Submit CM's notes to Eclipse Scala plugin team

· For details, See ticket report "Sam R: Report" here