Re:Wikipedia enhanced with Augmented 3D models
by nickporter on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @01:45PM
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Something interesting, while not directly related to this topic, would be interactive mathematical widgets on wikipedia. There are a bunch of old java applets floating around for this kind of thing, and they really helped me understand concepts like 3D graphics. It would be nice if wikipedia had those.
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Re:Wikipedia enhanced with Augmented 3D models
by nickpinkston on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @01:56PM
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Totally with you - especially because Wikipedia's math pages go from zero to high math pretty fast, and even something simple like this would make these subjects more accessible - even intuitive.
There are enough web-based animation stuff to make this trivial - I wonder why no one is doing this kind of thing? There are these REALLY old pages with Java applets or even JS craziness from the 90's going on - but we have tools to make this sooooo much better.
We need an online science museum methinks.
Re:Wikipedia enhanced with Augmented 3D models
by jfchianetta on Tuesday November 06, 2012 @01:51PM
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I still don't really understand to process to get new stuff in wikipedia, it seems really complicated to change something there. I guess when you have so many content you need to have some inertia but still.