Here is a complete list of MicroWorlds projects on this site. Use the menu on the right to narrow your search to projects that fix a particular genre .

Mar 21 19:58

Ballistic

Launch an object from the castle walls. Adjust the launch angle, speed and height and watch the effect.



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Mar 20 16:35

Circles

This project is taken directly from StarLogo. I began playing with StarLogo when the Java version was released. It was obvious from the beginning that some of the capabilities of StarLogo (multiple turtles and parallel processing) could be duplicated in MicroWorlds. Below is my attempt to rewrite a few of the StarLogo demos in MicroWorlds.



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Mar 21 21:39

Digital Clock

A Digital Clock done in Logo, plus an implementation of checkboxes and radio buttons.



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Mar 21 21:12

Drunk Walk

Another version of the drunkard's walk. This one Stephen Jay Gould writes about in chapter 13 of his book Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. This project also makes interesting use of MicroWorlds ability to program multiple turtles.



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Mar 21 20:54

Flavius

For a good description of the problem and an alternate web based solution see Josephus Flavius game

Briefly we start with num turtles and go around the circle skipping every skip turtles. Which will be the last turtle standing?



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Mar 21 20:06

Marbles

A look at probability. Some interesting motion ideas (the marble coming out of the bag) and text editing are demonstrated.



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Mar 15 22:54

Motion II

Watch the turtles bounce off the walls. Create and control multiple turtles. Watch how friction affects their motion. Motion ideas from the book Advanced Logo, a language for learning used here. New in Motion II place magnets on the screen.



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Mar 21 20:41

Nephroid

The code for creating the nephroid was taken from an excellent book Visual Modeling with LOGO by James Clayson. Unfortunately the book is no longer in print. Check out the MIT Press to find out how you can get a copy of this book.



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Mar 16 14:48

Racetrack

A rainy Sunday project with help from Jessica.

Drive the turtle around the track. Be careful not to drive off and crash!



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Mar 21 20:23

Sierpinski Curve

A Sierpinski Curve is part of the family of recursively defined curves, commonally called fractals. If that makes your head hurt don't worry about it, just click here and enjoy.



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Mar 16 15:21

Simple Animation

Some simple animation done in Micro Worlds. Write a scene for the girl, send it to me and it will be included. See the page for details.



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Mar 15 22:34

Stringart

The idea for this project came from the book Introduction to Line Designsby Dale Seymour. I was familar with his books on tesselation but I had not seen this book before. I was looking for his tesselation books at the library but they were checked out. This one came to me by serindipity.



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Mar 20 11:28

Turtle Selection Demonstration

This project shows two of the many ways to track the order that a group of turtles are selected in. The turtles are the three shapes (fish, flower and star) located in the upper right. The task is to select the three turtles in the correct order.



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Mar 16 15:18

Turtles as Numbers

From a discussion on the Logo list. How to create numbers using turtles and have them follow the mouse around the screen? Here is one solution.



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