Re: [Tutor] Simple physics simulations)

2008-09-14 Thread Chris Fuller
You could also try out PyGeo, which is based on VisualPython. You could also use a geometry application like Kig, which has Python scripting support. http://pygeo.sourceforge.net/ http://edu.kde.org/kig/ Cheers On Sunday 14 September 2008 02:46, Jim Morcombe wrote: > I want to write a program

Re: [Tutor] Simple physics simulations)

2008-09-14 Thread Noufal Ibrahim
Jim Morcombe wrote: I want to write a program that helps teach students how to draw ray diagrams for lenses and mirrors. Vpython seems to be used for a number of physics simulations, but may be overkill for my application. Although there are a few 3D things I would like to do, most just invol

Re: [Tutor] Simple physics simulations)

2008-09-14 Thread Alan Gauld
"Jim Morcombe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote I want to write a program that helps teach students how to draw ray diagrams for lenses and mirrors. For simple 2D lines and arcs then the basic Canvas widget of Tkinter or wxPython would be fine. Vpython seems to be used for a number of physics simul

[Tutor] Simple physics simulations)

2008-09-14 Thread Jim Morcombe
I want to write a program that helps teach students how to draw ray diagrams for lenses and mirrors. Vpython seems to be used for a number of physics simulations, but may be overkill for my application. Although there are a few 3D things I would like to do, most just involves drawing curves an