ARK (Alternate Reality Kit)[R. Smith 86-92]

• A 2D animated environment for creating interactive simulations

• The goals were

  • to teach users about fundamental laws of physics
  • to allow non-expert programmers to develop interactive simulations

• Objects have visual representation, mass and velocity

• Laws of nature are objects that can be manipulated and changed

  • Very much like the meta-object protocol

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