CS 1025 01 - Week #4 (Feb 04, 06, 08)

Monday, February 4th

1. Understand it, Plan it, Code it: Model building and Ghostbusters movie.

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

Wednesday, February 6th

1. The SHODOR Data Flyer tool: Plotting data and finding the best fitting function. 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, February 8th

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

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

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

4. Adobe Flash and gravity.