The concept is cool, but the UI for navigating the canvas is pretty frustrating. I wish it used mouse actions like zooming with the scroll wheel and panning with dragged right click/middle click.
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#22Polypad itself isn’t open source, but many of its underlying math and UI libraries are published by its creator under the Mathigon org [1]. The UI is impressive on its own, but what I find really interesting is that it’s built entirely without a traditional frontend framework. The core is a small library that's a mix of jquery-style DOM wrappers and Vue-like reactivity, templating, and web components [2]. I wish this…
You can get very close to a working version by reverse engineering the javascript with Claude. I got a good version almost an year back. With Opus it might do a better job.
Re: Polypad
#23I really wish I could find a site for 2D geometry/pedagogy which would "click" as well for me, and be as useful as: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ has been. Really miss directly programming in PostScript in Altsys Virtuoso on my NeXT Cube. I've tried Processing and Nodebox, and they haven't quite clicked, and scripting in Inkscape feels clunky....
Geogebra? [1] [1] https://www.geogebra.org/
I've tried that, and it's never quite worked out for me.
The files need a lot of cleanup/massaging, and for instance, polygons are a series of separate line segments, not a closed path.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes – CTO of Amplify here. As a sibling poster notes, the Desmos calculator and math tools spun out to Desmos Studio PBC, which has a bunch of great people – with the goal of ensuring those remain available to all and not tied to a single curriculum provider. The Desmos Classroom tools for social, interactive classroom instruction, and another bunch of great colleagues, are part of Amplify, which together with Polypa…
(Since you're in the thread, can I ask you to give kudos to whoever's kept the original "Let's Explore Geography! Canadian Commodities Trader Simulation Exercise" class code active all these years? I think you might have even changed the multiple-choice component to better support the weird thing I was doing with empty choice text.)
Ha absolutely! :) That's you eh? Very nifty
Re: Polypad
#25The annual Polypad Art Contest is worth browsing through: https://polypad.amplify.com/contest From last year, this Moonlight Sonata in the 12-15 year old category is awesome: https://polypad.amplify.com/p/3VOW6BLM7AYqhQ And I'm partial to this creation by an educator: https://polypad.amplify.com/p/hPjJZ4DC2Tpywg but they're all great (disclaimer: i am CTO of Amplify)
I'm curious, do you notice an uptick in complexity in submissions, corresponding with AI popularity?