CS 1025 01 - Week #4 (Sep 16, 18, 20)



Monday, September 16th


  1. Follow the mouse movements with turtles. Also, paint patches RED. NetLogo fun!

  2. Finding the Slope of a line Rise over the Run: High jump or hurdles or pole vault over the 100 meter dash or mile run or marathon.

  3. Adobe Flash and easing: Ease in and Ease out compared to no easing. What is the SLOPE? Constant and linear or curved and changing?

  4. Adobe Flash Bouncing Ball for comparing Ease In and Ease Out and no easing...

  5. Microsoft Excel slope for Classic Tween without Ease In and with Ease In.

    Without Easing and With Ease In data for the Data Flyer tool.
    Animation with No Ease In... Animated to Ease In at 100% Flash custom setting...

  6. The SHODOR Data Flyer tool: Plotting data and finding the best fitting function. Ordered pairs.

  7. See the difference between Ease In/Ease Out and No Easing side by side in Flash published application.

Wednesday, September 18th


  1. The SHODOR Data Flyer tool: Plotting data. Ordered pairs.

  2. Plot this set of numbers using the SHODOR Data Flyer tool. It is MAYA 3D Graphics animation ease in data.
     1   0
     2   0.482
     3   1.9
     4   4.213
     5   7.379
     6  11.356
     7  16.103
     8  21.578
    
    Here is the absolutely best fitting linear equation y = mx + b, for the
    above data.  The slope of the straight line is m and the intercept is b.
    
                 When x is equal to 0, the equation becomes y = m*0 + b, or
                                                            y = 0 + b = b.
    
      y = f(x) = 3.104 * x - 6.090  or  y = 3.1 * x - 6.1
    
    The best CURVE fitting quadratic equation for the above set of 
    8 points, i.e. (x, y) pairs is:
    
        f(x)  =  y = 0.416 * x*x  -  0.641 * x  +  0.152
         
                              2
           or    y  =  0.416 x   -  0.641 x  +  0.152
    

    Excel spreadsheet with the above (x, y) pairs of numbers.

  3. SHODOR Data Flyer tool review and exercises/assignment. Find the best fitting function by plotting the data and adjusting the slope m and intercept b of the linear equation.

    Due on Wednesday, Feb 13th, 2013...

    46	55
    50	55
    48	59
    45	56
    31	68
    45	63
    50	53
    18	79
    28	72
    24	72
    34	68
    20	71
    28	72
    13	82
    13	81
    


Friday, September 20th


  1. Ventana VENSIM and System Dynamics approach to modeling and simulation.

  2. Maya and Flash and ease in and ease out (easing) versus linear tangents.

  3. Adobe Flash and gravity.