What's new in Algodoo for Education 2.0.1
Dec 21, 2011
- Lesson tutorials for creating your own first lesson
- Create, save and share your lessons with students and other teachers in your school or around the world.
- A built in lesson library in which users can search for lessons that suit their particular key stage, curriculum subject or even course textbook.
- Full support for SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards system as well as supporting other whiteboard manufacturers systems.
- Visualization now with X/Y components and angles
- Enhanced and smoother plots
- Re-designed user interface easier to use for both beginners and experts:
- Set the mood for new scene right when you create it!
- Much improved scene browser with thumbnail previews and renaming.
- New sidebar menu to select material and appearance for new objects.
- New pan and zoom tools in the simulation bar - great for touch screens!
- Cursor changes depending on what tool is selected
- Added support for Mac touch-pads: Use two-fingers for panning and zooming or swipe with three fingers to undo, redo, play/pause and minimize / maximize windows, or go back / forwards in a browser.
- More collision layers!
- A greatly improved color picker!
- Improved air friction settings.
- New tools added for drawing and building:
- Thrusters for applying constant forces
- Ropes that will snap or stretch depending on your settings.
- New and more stable chains.
- Drag-and-drop components or images into Algodoo from your the new components tab, your desktop or Internet browser.
- New features for sharing and loading scenes:
- Algobox is now integrated in Algodoo with over 30 000 user made scenes ready to run
- Download, rate and comment your friends scenes from inside Algodoo!
- Share and publish your own scenes with all your friends in a few seconds!
- Algodoo for Education with even more features for your science classes:
- Lesson tutorials for running your first Algodoo Lessons
- Lesson plans for different key stages and subjects integrated right into Algodoo, easy to find and easy to use.
- Create your own Lessons from within Algodoo, and easily distribute to your students.
- Visualize forces, velocities and momentum relating to your objects!
- Also visualize X/Y components with angles
- New smoother plots and much nicer layout with helpful grid lines. Customable time span to see only the last few seconds of output.
- Arrow scale automatically set by Algodoo depending on your scene
- Full support and integration with SMART Board interactive Whiteboards system.
- Also support for other Interactive Whiteboard Systems
- Technical improvements for better performance:
- Algodoo starts more quickly
- Scenes run more smoothly
- Scene loads many times faster
- The in-house world leading SABRE technology for constraint solving. Enables ropes that remain stable and don’t stretch even under the heaviest of loads.
- Added support for anisotropic filtering to improve quality of stretched springs.
- More responsive panning, with support for kinetic panning (“camera throwing”)
- Slider values now use a nicer form of scientific notation for large numbers. "12000000" will now display as "1.2 * 10^7" (instead of "1.200000000e+007").