Algodoo [v2.0.0] [ENG] (2011)

ALGODOO is a unique 2D-simulation software from Algoryx Simulation AB. Algodoo is designed in a playful, cartoony manner, making it a perfect tool for creating interactive scenes and physical experiments. Algodoo encourages students and children’s own creativity, ability and motivation to construct knowledge. Making it as entertaining as it is educational. Algodoo is also a perfect aid for children to learn and practice physics at home.

For drawing and building
Algodoo Physics comes with an abundance of tools for constructing, building and creating your designs.
• Use the unique Sketch tool – an all-in-one tool with gestures for multi drawing and editing – that makes your workflow quick and easy.
• Or draw your creations with basic tools like Circles, Boxes, Polygons, Planes, Gears, Ropes & Chains.
• Make your inventions truly unique by adding physics like Springs, Axles, Thrusters, Lasers, Fixates and Tracers.
• Edit and interact with your creations using tools like Scale, Rotate, Move, Cut and Drag.
• For even more editing you can make water, set collision layers, group objects, add mechanics, etc, to your different components.
For design and final touches
The Algodoo world is colorful but you can easily change the look and feel in Algodoo.
• Set color for your background, water and your objects. Save your colors as different palettes for future work. You can also change the look of your artwork with pre-made palettes like X-ray, Optics, Sunset, and many others.
• Experiment with different materials in Algodoo Physics. In seconds you can set density, friction and restitution for your objects. Making them slippery like ice, heavy like gold or bouncy like a rubber ball. Algodoo comes with 9 different pre-made materials: Gold, Glass, Stone, Steel, Rubber, Helium, Wood, Ice and the Default Algodoo material.
For sharing and daring
If you want some inspiration, find scenes in “Algobox” – a library of Algodoo creations. There are more than 50 000 user-created scenes that you will find amazing, awe-inspiring and fun.
• Browse around for hours, download and play your favourite scenes, all within Algodoo.
• Sign up for your personal account and start sharing your creations. Challenge your friends to try them or dare them to build even cooler scenes.
• Rate, comment and like all scenes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
Algodoo for Education is easy to use and easy to learn! Browse, load and create lessons from within Algodoo or examine your scenes with graphs and visualization of forces, velocities and momentum.
This fully interactive software allows students to benefit from the most effective method of learning – that of “learning by doing”. Algodoo for Education is therefore perfectly designed for science classes or exploring physics at home with quick and easy experimentation. Algodoo motivates students and children to explore and play with physics while having fun.
For exploring and analyzing
Algodoo for Education comes with an abundance of tools for experimenting, analyzing and educating in science.
• Request Plots to demonstrate exact changes in values and events in your scene
• View force arrows to help students understand friction, force, velocity, momentum and gravity’s effects on the things around us.
• Enhanced visualization with X/Y components for deeper analysis.
• Create, save and share your own lessons – either for your own personal use or for putting in the library for all Algodoo users to see and benefit from.
• View built-in lessons as well as those that other teachers have created and shared. Adapt them to suit your lesson requirements and complexity level. This saves time in lesson preparation as well as reduces the requirement for being an Algodoo expert in order to benefit from the program.
For teaching and learning
Algodoo for Education covers a huge variety of topics within the physics curriculum that are much easier for students to comprehend with the aid of simulation.
• Learn and teach about newtons law, kinematics, energy conservation, collisions, rotation, torque, angular momentum, fluids, optics, refraction and much, much more.
• Motivate and increase your students interest in science.
• Students themselves can “play” with the parameters and see the immediate results of their interaction.
For SMART Board and Interactive Whiteboards
Algodoo for Education is fully integrated and optimized for SMART Boards but also supports other whiteboard manufacturers systems.
SMART Board features:
• Multitouch supporting multi-user drawing, interaction and editing on SMART Boards
• Pen gestures for creating objects, interact with scenes and control simulations
• Full support for SMART Board pen colors, erasers and gestures