Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Geometry (Nico Disseldorp)

Posted by on June 28, 2013

ancientgreek
it’s little bit Geometry tool, and a little bit puzzle game. – [Author’s Description]

[Play online (HTML5)]

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17 Comments.

  1. increpare June 28, 2013 at 8:44 pm

    played this a bit more, have been resisting looking up solutions – quite enjoying it : )

  2. Newfur June 28, 2013 at 10:27 pm

    This is incredibly enjoyable. Perhaps he could have put in a 17-gon for hard mode. What I’m embarrassed to have trouble figuring out as a mathematician, though, is what an origin circle is.

    • Noyb June 28, 2013 at 10:32 pm

      Within the context of the game, it’s a circle whose origin is one of the two, initial bold vertices. The picture above shows a triangle inscribed in an origin circle.

      • Newfur June 28, 2013 at 10:36 pm

        Aha, got it. I managed to get that with a bit more experimentation and noticing that the “achievement” icons had a particularly black centerpoint. Thanks!

        • Burnside June 29, 2013 at 9:10 am

          More specifically, an “origin circle” is a circle whose origin is one of the initial supplied points *and* whose radius is the distance between the two points, i.e. one of the two first circles you can draw from the beginning.

  3. nobody June 29, 2013 at 1:16 am

    Neat. It’s really pleasurable to just mess around with, and so the concrete goal list in the corner feels like a bonus level of fun.

    (It took me a while to realize “Better Pop Up Blocker” was blocking the javascript that draws the circles, in case anyone else has the same problem.)

  4. Controversial June 29, 2013 at 1:17 am

    HOLY
    SHIT
    THIS IS AMAZING

  5. arrogant.gamer June 29, 2013 at 5:33 am

    All through my math career (a minor focused on abstract algebra) I’ve carried a compass and straight edge, and done all my math in sketch-books rather than lined paper. When things got rough — when a group action wasn’t behaving; when a tank of salt water wasn’t flowing quite right; when integration by parts seemed endless — I would whip out my compass and straight edge and see what kind of a mess I could make. Sometimes I would literally spend hours just to see. Just to see!

    This brought me back.

    I demand that @sciencevsmagic teams up with @wewanttoo to make an iOS/Android version targeted towards children. This is my demand.