An interactive, user-driven physics simulator

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An interactive, user-driven physics simulator

• Tom Smilack

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Inspiration

• MITs ASSIST A Shrewd Sketch Interpretation and
  Simulation Tool
• User draws image
• ASSIST interprets image
• ASSIST feeds image into commercial simulator

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Goal

• Like ASSIST, but focus on the physics
• Instead of modeling exactly what the user draws,
  guess what the user wanted to draw
• Hopefully will simulate accurately

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Progress

• Projectile motion
• Collisions

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In the near future

• Fix collisions
• Better user input method
• Friction
• Rotation