Apparatus

Apparatus (2015) is a hybrid graphics editor and programming environment for creating interactive diagrams.

Toby started working on this in mid-2014. The following are subprojects that came up during the making and exercising of Apparatus.


Relativity time-dilation (2014) is an interactive diagram that motivated Apparatus.

Apparatus recursive drawing (2015) shows integration by drawing objects inside themselves.

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Apparatus prototypal inheritance (2015) are notes while working out how inheritance should work.

Apparatus tides diagram (2015) is an early diagram in Apparatus under development.

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Apparatus microjam (2015) was a group play-test session.

Apparatus biking (2015) uses Apparatus to answer a trick question.

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Apparatus simulation (2015) is an experimental feature for stateful diagrams.

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Apparatus embedding (2016) puts interactive diagrams on web pages.


Toby and others later created a commercial design tool based on Apparatus: Cuttle