Loci: Developers

The Developers Area of Loci continues the area from the Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (JOMA). The articles featured in this area spotlight material of particular interest to those who develop online mathematics software.

Featured Items:
Creating Photo-realistic Images and Animations This tutorial shows the details of composing the POV-Ray code necessary to generate the image of a dodecahedron, and to animate rotating the dodecahedron.		Open Standards, Web-Based Mathlets: Making Interactive Tutorials Using the HTML5 canvas Element This article describes methods for creating interactive math materials using the HTML5 canvas element.
How Easy is 'Easy Java Simulations' Programming? This article introduces and reviews the 'Easy Java Simulations' software environment for developing math explorations as interactive Java applets.		Creating Mathlets with Open Source Tools From: Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications In this article we present a collaborative environment of open source tools around the dynamic mathematics software GeoGebra that gives educators the freedom to create new and modify existing materials in an online community.
MathDL Flash Forum From: Loci: Resources A forum for educators interested in developing mathematics classroom material using Adobe Flash.		Developer Tools A set of articles (and some tutorials) about various tools for developers, including GeoGebra, LiveGraphics3D, Java Sketchpad, PHP, and SVG.