{"id":1874,"date":"2008-03-20T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2008-03-20T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T23:00:43","slug":"crayon-physics-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/20\/crayon-physics-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Crayon Physics Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In high school, we had software which would simulate dynamics of different shaped objects.  I used to set up part of the screen as a &#8220;hoop&#8221; and then try to design the crazies way for a ball to bounce off all sorts of shapes set with different initial velocities and into the hoop.  It was kind of cool how Rube Goldburg you could get with this physics simulation, and it was, I&#8217;ll admit, both quite fun, and absolutely geeky.  Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/gaming\/2008\/03\/crayon_physics_deluxe.html\">via Slate<\/a>, I find that someone has made this into a game:<\/p>\n<span class=\"pontiff-restored-video\" data-source-video=\"youtube-QsTqspnvAaI\" style=\"display:block;position:relative;width:560px;max-width:100%;aspect-ratio:16\/9;min-height:200px\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QsTqspnvAaI?feature=oembed\" title=\"Crayon Physics Deluxe\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allow=\"encrypted-media;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen style=\"position:absolute;inset:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\"><\/iframe><\/span><span style=\"display:block\"><a class=\"pontiff-restored-video-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI\">Watch Crayon Physics Deluxe on YouTube<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In high school, we had software which would simulate dynamics of different shaped objects. I used to set up part of the screen as a &#8220;hoop&#8221; and then try to design the crazies way for a ball to bounce off all sorts of shapes set with different initial velocities and into the hoop. It was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/03\/20\/crayon-physics-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crayon Physics Game&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}