>From http://sfcomplex.org:
VPYTHON: 3D PROGRAMMING FOR ORDINARY MORTALS Thursday, June 9, 2011 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood Professors of Physics Emeriti, North Carolina State University VPython is a programming environment that enables even novices to write programs that produce navigable real-time 3D animations as a side-effect of computations. VPython is based on the Python programming language (http://python.org) which has a large user community. Like Python, VPython is open source freeware available for Windows, Linux, and Macintosh (http://vpython.org). Workshop participants will learn to write 3D programs and can sample existing applications. If possible, install VPython on your own laptop and bring it to the workshop. There are three main communities of users of VPython: * In the Matter & Interactions physics curriculum (matterandinteractions.org), students use VPython to model physical systems. * Faculty use VPython to create 3D lecture-demo programs. * Researchers use VPython as an easy programming interface to visualizing systems and data in 3D. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org