osnr / PyVolvelle

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PyVolvelle

WIP. (that is, will break with most shapes different from the built-in examples, probably)

Go to online editor: https://osnr.github.io/PyVolvelle/editor/

[...] the European adoption of this useful device is reflected in the name we have for it, volvelle, from the Latin volvere meaning “to turn.” The scope of information that volvelles depict is huge. Besides astronomy, subjects include: verb conjugations, color wheels, metric conversions, fortune-telling, first-aid techniques, and local seasonal foods [...]

https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2017/06/12/the-original-app-paper-volvelles/

https://avisualapproach.blogspot.com/p/workshop-5-volvelles-reveal.html

Amaranth

PyTorch

Z3Py

Nomogram https://github.com/lefakkomies/pynomo

https://damassets.autodesk.net/content/dam/autodesk/research/publications-assets/pdf/moveablemaker-facilitating-the-design.pdf

Volvelleteer https://www.kaleberg.com/software/volvelleteer/documentation.html

Slide rule

OneOf -- discrete choice Slide -- real numbers between A and B

You can express functions, or you can express lookup tables with if statements.

License

MIT

TODO

• Error reporting

• Simulator

• Doesn't currently work headless / with CPython (need new backend to emit SVG strings, shouldn't be too hard)

• More mathematical operations (esp nonlinear ones)