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Foil 63 More Applications: Games and Physics

From User View of Tango Features with tutorial Tango Tutorial at SC98 Orlando -- November 8 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 So games are a natural applications of collaborative system
  • Othello is an interesting and serious 2 player game where you can also play as an individual against the computer
  • The magic cube can use use the the ability of transferring master status to allow a slave(observer) take control and solve the puzzle started by the original master
2 We showed two simple physics applications but we also have more sophisticated shared applets illustrating planetary motion and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
  • CFD just shares data and display options and solves the equations (written in Java) fully on each machine
  • Planetary motion will start and stop the planets motion and then resume the simulation
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