That one XKCD thing, now interactive.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

That one XKCD thing, now interactive.

This is so much fun... Craig S. Kaplan: In my online undergraduate P5.js course, students are about to begin the module on motion and physics, including a bit of physics simulation using Matter.js. It suddenly...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4B

[sil@mastodon.social]

@jwz what's most worrying? amusing? realistic? about this is that if you just click somewhere, not on any of the things, half of it collapses anyway

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@sil Right??

[infoseepage@mastodon.social]

@jwz @sil Fun, but I always imagined these things to have the consistency of wood block Jenga pieces and this simulation has everything feeling like they're made of something ultra low friction like ice. Things just keep moving and moving and moving.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@Infoseepage @sil Everyone thinks they're a woodworker crafting for the ages until they realize they're carving ice swans.

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@jwz @Infoseepage @sil Somewhat similar to what Dennis Meadows did at MIT in 1972. The graphics is better though

[infoseepage@mastodon.social]

@jwz @sil Says the guy who's been maintaining a screensaver collection for a third of a century?

[infoseepage@mastodon.social]

@jwz @sil I'm trying to think of what the oldest piece of software I might still be regularly using on my Windows systems that aren't baked into the operating system itself that just run correctly without any gotchas on modern systems. I think it might be a file renaming utility which I use to normalize the file names of downloaded videos from the mid-90s. Total abandonedware, but it does what I need so I've never felt the impulse to go out and reinvent the wheel.

[jwz@mastodon.social]

@Infoseepage @sil The swans are needy, so needy