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Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by moralestapia »

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!

Sometimes you're so good and qualified for something that some guy inside gets jealous and moves a few strings to keep you away. Happens more often than not.

So, ignore that and keep up doing what you do, which is great btw.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by TOMDM »

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/

Oh hey, I remember seeing this on a Manim thread.

Great library, you reckon there'd be much interest in a Vue fork if someone were to put in the effort?

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by dmlittle »

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?

Slightly off-topic answer: back in the day these used to be Java Applets so the original mathlets name is probably a pun on them.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by dhosek »

dmlittle wrote: post #34
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?

Slightly off-topic answer: back in the day these used to be Java Applets so the original mathlets name is probably a pun on them.

One of my grad school text books had interactive experiments based on Java Applets. I occasionally go back to work through the chapters we never finished and running the applets is a challenge. I think the last time I tried, I ended up finding a command-line interface to run an applet outside of the browser.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by tyler_sf »

qualudeheart wrote: post #17

I would like a neurology site called brainlets. I think it would appeal to young people. Brainlet is a popular slang word these days. What do you think my friends?

I think it's a fantastic idea. Now what you need to do is play around with what domain you're going to use. brainlets (dot) me?

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by j-james »

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 would call them interactive animations.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by qualudeheart »

mixedCase wrote: post #19
qualudeheart wrote: post #17

I would like a neurology site called brainlets. I think it would appeal to young people. Brainlet is a popular slang word these days. What do you think my friends?

It's an insult akin to "stupid" or "dense". It worked for git, but "git" at least wasn't in vogue.

I thought git was considered a slur.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by hyperjeff »

jonsen wrote: post #16
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/

On iPad your page shows for .2 seconds then blanks :-/

Working very well on my (3rd gen) iPad Pro, fwiw.

Re: MIT Mathlets

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

ubavic wrote: post #27

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

Thank you, I was looking for such a list.

Is there any such list for non web i.e. native platforms say like using GTK or QT?

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