[Edu-sig] re: Education Arcade

[Arthur]

Richard writes -

>Where simulations are interesting and even exciting teaching tools
>is in the other extreme -- where the mapping from real to virtual is
>uncontroversial, but the consequences of these known interactions
>are unclear.  This is generally the case when we are simulating physics.

A nice, small non-technical and generic explanation of a physics SDK can be
found at:

http://opende.sourceforge.net/slides/slide1.html

Also happen to like the presentation's aesthetics.

The author, Russel Smith, created the Open Dynamics Engine (ODE):

http://opende.sourceforge.net

There is a Python wrapper to ODE, but for some reason the link is not
working.  So I will mention that there is an extant copy of a Windows binary
for PyODE and Python2.3 which I had compiled, and made available some time
ago at my own site:

http://pw1.netcom.com/~ajs/download


And, yes, I agree.

Art