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Future Plans:

October 8, 2007

The future of high definition monitors and wide screens with old video cards and competing browsers changing things on a daily basis baffles me. I'm going to ignore it and see what happens next. If circles appear rather ovalish to you, just pretend its Non-Euclidian or something. Or, change monitor resolution. I'm having enough troubles with text at the moment, (possibly a part of the same problem). Hope to tie some of the math together.

May 5, 2007

High Resolution is the key to the future here apparently. At the moment I feel as if I'm still falling behind technology innovations, perhaps at a bit slower rate than last year. See "Monitor Resolution" The future is foggy.

November 14, 2006

Basically, just keeping up with the browser changes and new software at the moment. Will look at the patent situation. Some work with the math has been accomplished; this is where I would like to focus attention.

December 4, 2005

I have begun a bit more studying of actionscript and have researched some internet resources. (Moock + online tutorials). I will probably take some time to experiment a bit and see if some worthwhile ideas come to mind.

The copyright issue will be researched a bit more.

If the actionscripting works out for a few more math animations, I would like to see one made in which the interactivity consists of re - creating something of the mindset of those who originally created the Calculus. That is, a problem, a desire to solve the problem, and calculus as the easiest means to its solution sufficiently close to be reached for.

June 28, 2005

1. Learn more Actionscripting for more interactivity and better graphics

2. I would like to see a better vector analysis of the energy between the molecules of the plucked string (elasticity and momentum).

This might be combined with Benjamin Crowell's analysis noted in http://www.lightandmatter.com/ Vibrations and Waves pdf P45 and in the "Fundamental" and "Vectors"animations. See also Falstad, http://www.falstad.com/coupled .

http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/coupled/osc2.htm
From W. Bauer - Good Coupled Oscilator- "This is how waves propagate" - to be placed next to:

http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~norimari/science/JavaApp/nami1/e-nami.html From NoriMari KATO

 

3. A better rendition of the " Coded Circular Functions" and "Longitudinal Wave 2" animations. (Complex Harmonic Motion).

4. Some form of "Chladni" plate/ holographic indication of transmission of the wave through the guitar. This should take a 3-D format. Here's a rough first draft chladni_holograph. (October 8, 2007 - some of the links below were added to the animation itself quite some time ago, sufficient for my immediate needs.

Some reference sites for the subject:

http://www.kettering.edu/~drussell/ >"Scholarly Activity">Animations for Teaching Acoustics, and Acoustics of Guitars .

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/chladni.html

http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/groups/acoucomp/

5. Modify "Contents"

The animation titles are 'spur of the moment' filenames - they probably mean very little to first time viewers. It may be possible to rename and reorganize them so as to make the "Contents" page a better guide for viewers

Some lists of keywords from various possible categories of organization. They are just some commonly understood topics in the disciplines listed and covered to some extent in the animations. The rows are not related.

Caveats:

a. Structuring the site into a 'Formal Contents Page' means less freedom of creativity. It's probably about the right time to do so, the math and programming necessary to advance the site beyond its present configuration is going to take some time.

b. There is a lot of work involved in changing all the names and buttons and then testing the site. Do I really want to do this right now? So far, NO!

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