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by bobajeff 18 days ago
I watched the video. I think I've been wanting something like this recently but there's not really a name for this sort of thing that I know of.

Relatedly, I've been working on a step-by-step solver/calculator but I just use sympy (via pyodide) + mathlive. But I'm starting to see the limitations of running Python in the browser and am starting to look at js libraries now.
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dicroce 18 days ago
The underlying math engine is written in typescript and is open source:

https://github.com/dicroce/wyrm_math

Probably it's most important feature for applications like this is that the id's of elements in the equations are stable (meaning, if an X has an id of 123 and a transformation moves it to the other side of the equals sign, it still has id 123... this allows you animate between states if you wish).

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bobajeff 18 days ago
I tried the demo. One thing I've noticed is it's sometimes hard to know what operation clicking or dragging something will do (or has done sometimes). I'm not sure what would help other than showing like a pie menu before carrying out the operation.

On the library. It's sounds really cool. I'm going to look at it pretty soon.

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dicroce 18 days ago
Yeah I added the popup that appears when you hover as a means of trying to counteract this. I'll be looking for more ways to communicate this.
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