Some weird sort of "direct manipulation" hack

(minus the direct manipulation tbh)

This was a project I did for the end-of-year university hackathon. The idea was to provide a way to collaborate on work, without being stuck into "breakout groups", as they tend to collectively get stuck, requiring someone to get a teacher or discuss with another group. The use of a Minecraft server also conveniently introduces a physical metaphor to reduce the feeling of isolation in class.

This repository is total shitprototype quality: it will probably explode if you look at it funny, and no sandboxing is done in user code, so you might as well consider yourself already pwned if you expose to anyone you don't trust.

You might want to just watch this demo video instead of trying to run this program yourself.

Getting started

Start a Minecraft server with the RaspberryJuice plugin, running on a superflat world with absolute coordinates (unless you want to modify the code to fix that).

Then run (ql:quickload :direct-manipulation-hack) and navigate to around -0, 5, -0 in the map. You should see two plots, one with a three dimensional Lissajous figure, and one with a double pendulum.

http://localhost:8080/ has the "interface" for this project, where you can look at a list of projects, and clone and edit them.