Thursday February 21, 2008 Phun
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This was one of the most popular del.icio.us links on popurls yesterday. I see it's there today too. I decided to download it and play with it. |
It's a 2D physics sandbox by Emil Ernerfeldt.
"Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction.
And it's fun. Easy to understand. Just dive right in. Muck about with things like gravity and weight and see what effect it has on the objects you've created.
Checkout the video to see the kind of things you can do with phun
Duncan is home this week (it's a school holiday), so when he next get's bored (or it's a Mythbusters episode that he's already seen), then I'll show him this and see how quickly it picks it up. As somebody who opened the OLPC in about ten seconds having never seen one before, I don't expect it will take very long.
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Neat! I'll see if I can find a moment to try it on VirtualBox on my Mac
Posted by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart on February 21, 2008 at 11:16 AM PST #
I saw this mentioned earlier on linuxgames.com and it reminds me a bit of the PS3-game "Little Big Planet"... and above all like a good bunch of fun.
Posted by MacSlow on February 21, 2008 at 01:19 PM PST #
I've tried it on three different machines now:
1/ Dell Dimension 8200 -- about 7 years old
running Windows XP. Runs fine but I think
it's using software rendering.
2/ Ferrari 3400 -- about three years old
running Ubuntu Gutsy. Comes up but doesn't
want to recognize left click/drag on my USB
mouse, so not very useful.
3/ Ferrari 3400 (same machine but booted into
Windows XP). Tries to uses the hardware
graphics accelerator and craps out.
And I was right. Duncan loves it. He's
constructing a huge slingshot at the moment
and flinging things around.
I hope Emil makes the sources available. It
would be great to try to fix this up on my
Linux machine.
Posted by Rich Burridge on February 21, 2008 at 01:24 PM PST #
I made a few logic gates using this program (vid in my name), got as far as a working FF gate. Now all I need is a few adders, and we will have the most inefficient computer in the history of mankind.
Posted by Serjn on February 23, 2008 at 04:26 AM PST #