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Bring those doodles to life with Physics Illustrator

Assist is a wonderful implementation of a physics toy, created by the Design Rationale team at MIT. The tool provides a simple sketching interface, allowing you to draw 2D physical bodies, and manipulate them by creating, springs, pins and gravity. Its a great playset to play with, and would be great within a classroom environment.

The software was taken further by Microsoft, and adopted as a PowerToy for the Tablet PC, and named “Physics Illustrator” which you can download here (Requires a Tablet PC). You can even grab the source code from Microsoft Research here (C#, can be run on a non-tablet PC).

Thanks again fun-motion for the initial heads-up

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that’s great!!

you might like this too!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e2H35SlLmUA

HOW CAN I CONVERT IT FOR A NON TABLET PC?????????????PLZZZZ TELL MEEE

  • Aftoktoner

You can just download the source, download visual c# express 2005, load and compile – works a treat with the mouse.

[...] The success criteria for each level is simple – get the ball to the star (very Armadillo run). The mechanic is very much like the MIT developed (and Microsoft absorbed) Physics Illustrator, allowing you to draw to create physical elements (limited to boxes in this case) in order to bridge gaps or nudge the ball towards the star. Given that its just a simple prototype its a great success and would not be at all out of place on the DS (particularly with its slightly Yoshi’s Island-esque crayon aesthetic). [...]

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