PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

August 6, 2009

An online version of this report is available here

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

This report covers July 22-August 5 (2 week period, subsumes last week's report)

Ramp

· Posted 6 versions with 55 changes/fixes/features, latest is 1.03.30

· See the top of the change log for what's new

· See to-do list here, includes 40 issues (of varying complexity)

· Created stubs for Forces and Friction, started discussion about implementation here, mainly about differences between this and ramp sim

Misc

· Discuss some website issues with Jonathan & Wendy

· Discuss Polish translation problems with Marj

· Discuss PHtmlView implementation with Allain for piccolo

· Looked briefly at x3d, a 3d engine suggested by NP

Upcoming Work

· Ramp Simulation

· Motion Suite

· Force Law Lab

· CCK

1. Extensive testing (with Sam M)

2. Performance analysis/set time step

· JMonkeyEngine/Xith /3dzzd/Flash/Papervision3d/Feng Gui

· Work on Wicket website with Jonathan