<div dir="ltr">I'll bet every one of those graphing calcs has also been replicated as a phone app<div>That's cool stuff there!  (yours)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:30 PM kirby urner <<a href="mailto:kirby.urner@gmail.com">kirby.urner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Another modeling activity that's fun is starting with a giant spreadsheet (maybe a pandas DataFrame) wherein the columns are xyz coordinates of ballerina body sensors. As we know, the movie industry uses these sensors routinely, to bring an actor into a virtual reality (e.g. Gollum in Lord of the Rings). <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">We had an outfit in Nebraska do the recordings and I translated the sensor data into stick figure renderings, kind of eerie.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Pipeline:  sensor data (excel) --> python --> povray --> frame-joiner --> movie</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://youtu.be/38iz0-dopSg" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/38iz0-dopSg</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://youtu.be/3WehC6LxZe8" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/3WehC6LxZe8</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">This requires knowing enough scene description language to have Python write out coherent scripts, frame after frame, to the rendering engine (free open source povray).  <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Lots of coordinate system practice, with movie-making an end result.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'd like students to have access to Civilization type games but with full planets rendered as hexapents.  No need to code it from scratch unless they pay you.  At some point, you need to say "hey, even adults aren't working this hard for nothing".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Calendar time including timezones and daylight savings definitely core curriculum, no question, glad we have datetime tools.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Again, back to the end of the calculator era, they suck at calendar datetime, and besides, the API of a bazzillion little buttons sucks.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Kirby</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-first-person-physics.html" target="_blank">https://mybizmo.blogspot.com/2006/04/more-first-person-physics.html</a> (First Person Physics, University of Nebraska)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://youtu.be/sguOvRlHjn0" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/sguOvRlHjn0</a> (more hypertoons)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 12:04 PM Wes Turner <<a href="mailto:wes.turner@gmail.com" target="_blank">wes.turner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px sol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