Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:15:23 -0700
From: Chaim Gingold
Subject: Re: Apparatus tides diagram
Beautiful work, Toby! I wish I could just click a link in your email and play it myself! Maybe without the authoring tools, in a kind of viewer mode. Then I click a little button that discloses everything under the hood.

(Why does the planet appear to elongate towards the moon, is that intentional, or a perceptual trick?)

On Aug 19, 2015, at 2:08 PM, Glen Chiacchieri wrote:

Here's a video I saw recently about this exact thing. The vector-based geometry approach in the video is kind of interesting.


On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Paula wrote:
so cool.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Toby Schachman wrote:
I've been working and rewriting Apparatus to get it ready for people to use. It's slow but steady progress.

This morning I made this simple diagram about the moon's tidal influence on the earth. (Attached movie).

<tides.png>

I had the idea the night before last. No paper sketch. Yesterday I made a diagram over a half hour. It was more complicated and I didn't like it. Then this morning within a 20 minute chunk I made this one. So I think the workflow time scales are about what I was shooting for.