Long timers here might remember Arthur Siegel's PyGeo, still on Sourceforge <https://pygeo.sourceforge.net>. He and I used to endlessly debate, here on this edu-sig listserv, the relative advantages of this or that pythonic pedagogy, but were in agreement that VPython <https://vpython.org>, or Visual Python, was in the toolkit.
We managed to meet up in New York City, then I had to abort a second meetup at a Pycon and yada yada... I only met him in person that one time. No Zoom yet. Where is VPython today and who is using it? The physics teaching subculture is where it comes from and where it still thrives from what I can tell. I managed to get invited to an AAPT meetup <https://worldgame.blogspot.com/2010/07/physics-conference.html> (American Association of Physics Teachers) by Dr. Bob Fuller, then its president, and to sit in on some VPython talks. However, short of full scale animation, ala Blender <https://www.blender.org> today, we have the ray-tracer as a genre, and the ability to render stills. What brought me to Python in the first place, on a pilgrimage <http://4dsolutions.net/ocn/oopalgebra.html> through several languages (starting with FoxPro), was my appetite for computer graphics, geometric in particular. Today I'm on several Facebook groups that feed that appetite. Sometimes I roll my own. If you're new to Python and/or maybe looking for something more off the beaten path, not data science, not AI, then I recommend the free and open source stack I'm continuing to toy with: Python + povray, the latter coming from a CompuServ heritage, with an open source license predating anything GNU GPL. The animated GIFs <https://groups.io/g/synergeo/message/2735> I'm making also make use of Fiji <https://fiji.sc>, another free open wrapper. I write and run Python scripts <https://github.com/4dsolutions/School_of_Tomorrow/blob/master/flextegrity.py> to generate Scene Description Language for POV-Ray <https://www.povray.org>, render say 7 - 9 frames, then sequence them into a single GIF file <https://groups.io/g/synergeo/message/2739>, where Fiji lets you control both framerate and whether to keep looping or not. My contention has always been: it's a two way street i.e. we're not only learning Python in order to master more math; we're learning math to write more interesting Python. The math I've been learning, around polyhedrons, has given me hours of coding enjoyment and a deeper understanding of spatial geometry. Kirby
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