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Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by globuous » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 8:29 PM UTC

stevenpetryk wrote: post #12

Shameless plug for my React library for creating interactive visualizations on the web, in case anyone wants to make similar things. Probably needs a little work to make things this sophisticated though :) https://mafs.dev/

Really really cool !! The example section is sweeeet, real nice work ;)

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by mrtksn » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 10:21 PM UTC

stevenpetryk wrote: post #15

mynameismon wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, this is stunning! I foresee this as a frontend visualisation tool for a Brilliant.org competitor (something I have been wanting to do for a while, but haven't been able to find time for)

Funnily enough, I built it largely to impress them when I applied last year. But they black holed me. Still happy I made it!

You definitely impressed some random strangers on the internet:) It’s quite neat really.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by euske » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

Slightly off-topic question: how would you call these playable things embedded in HTML these days? I would like to use the word "applet" but it can be still confusing to those who remember Java Applets. Any idea?

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by ludwigschubert » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 11:06 PM UTC

euske wrote: post #23

Slightly off-topic question: how would you call these playable things embedded in HTML these days? I would like to use the word "applet" but it can be still confusing to those who remember Java Applets. Any idea?

I’ve seen other people use "interactives", "interactables", and "explorables" (as in "explorable explanation"). Those feel a little forced to me.

At Distill we simply called them "figures" or "diagrams"; sometimes "interactive figures" or "interactive diagrams" when the distinction needed to be made.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by strangeattractr » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 11:33 PM UTC

stevenpetryk wrote: post #12

Shameless plug for my React library for creating interactive visualizations on the web, in case anyone wants to make similar things. Probably needs a little work to make things this sophisticated though :) https://mafs.dev/

Nice work - this is really impressive.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by minikites » Fri, Sep 03, 2021, 11:41 PM UTC

These are fabulous and really solidify a lot of concepts. I would have loved this when I was in school.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by ubavic » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 12:07 AM UTC

Another shameless plug:

I just made a awesome-type list of tools that can be used for creating interactive mathematics (and physics) visualizations like we see here. Feel free to add tools that i forgot to mention.

https://github.com/ubavic/awesome-interactive-math-tools

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by prideout » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 1:44 AM UTC

euske wrote: post #23

Slightly off-topic question: how would you call these playable things embedded in HTML these days? I would like to use the word "applet" but it can be still confusing to those who remember Java Applets. Any idea?

Agreed, "applet" is a self-documenting word, it's a shame that it is confusing! Personally I like the word "vignette" although I haven't seen it anybody else using it that way.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by vic20forever » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 2:20 AM UTC

Bostonian wrote: post #4

Interesting, but in the first one I clicked on, "T distribution", there should be more explanation. It says only "The t distribution depends on one parameter.". I would say, "The shape of the t distribution depends on one parameter, the degrees of freedom, which controls the kurtosis. As df approaches infinity the t distribution approaches the normal distribution."

Click on the '+ help' label in the upper-right corner for a detailed description.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by denvaar » Sat, Sep 04, 2021, 2:25 AM UTC

stevenpetryk wrote: post #12

Shameless plug for my React library for creating interactive visualizations on the web, in case anyone wants to make similar things. Probably needs a little work to make things this sophisticated though :) https://mafs.dev/

I was really confused for a moment, because I thought the title of this post was "MIT Mathletes" (like athletes) and so this shameless plug seemed very random.