[DEMO] - Schroedinger's Kitten
Nov 21, 2012
By
Bruce Graham
In 1935, the concept of Schrodinger's Cat was devised, essentially to display one of the complexities of Quantum Physics, i.e. that an object could potentially be in two states, (alive and dead) at any one moment in time.
You can find out more about this on Wikipedia, (or in fact "The Big Bang Theory")
However...the lesser known fact is that 3 years earlier, Edwin Schrodinger, in 1932 started his first experiments with the concepts of duality and random decisions using Storyline (early beta....), a few states, the "Flowers De Rycke Javascript Randomness Model", some States, Conditions and Variables, and his own somewhat unlucky pet kitten - Bob.
Are you willing to play with Bob's fate?
Bruce
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Oh, look at the cute kitty!
Oh no - the poor kitty!
Cute kitty!
Poor kitty!
Bruce, I'm not sure I will ever forgive you for this one.
Sad kitty.
Good stuff, Bruce.
I have a grimalkin I'd like to donate to this project.
Love that word. Have not seen it used in a while.
Never heard it before - my new favourite word
Never knew "malkin" was an archaic word for "cat", (a bit like "brock" being the archaic word for a badger in English).
Bruce
Love it Bruce.
The scary thing is that this is a POC for another idea I have had, where there could be literally 600,000,000 different possible combinations to deal with. I may have to limit the scope of that particular project a bit
Bruce
What a coincidence finding this:
http://cat-bounce.com/
Are they alive, dead, or soemthing else????
Just out of curiosity: Did you eventually use javascript for the randomisation?
Yes,
var player = GetPlayer();
var nmr = Math.floor(Math.random() * 11);
player.SetVar("RandNum",nmr);
Bruce
I wonder if you could do something like this using the randomize answer option in a free format quiz. I have not thought this through yet but if you could use the built in randomizer it could save you some programming.
Bruce, I'll try to recreate that without making use of Javascript. Is that ok with you?
Of course - be my guest...
My original idea was to have a box with a sliding door that revealed Bob's condition after pressing the button, but I ran out of time to think about it....
Bruce
Well, that's the best I could come up with in 3-4 minutes.Based on Sasha Scott's little hack on your other post, done a little differently...
The HTML5 abnormality still stands at the moment.
I'll try to use a when variable changes trigger to make the switch between the two values instantaneous, but right now that's the best I could come up with.
I took Nancy's idea and used the Pick One Question type under Free Form. I turned on "Shuffle Answers" and put one of the answers off of the slide. The "Try Again" button restarts the course. This was done in an airport waiting on my flight to Spokane so please forgive the crudeness of it.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4162110/DeadCat/DeadCat%20output/story.html
Hey Charles - I thought there should be some way to make use of the random shuffle. Thanks for putting it together.
Charles - that's great!
Could you please post the .story as I have not got my head around that method yet?
Thanks
Bruce
PS - I love kittens, (except perhaps Bobby, my black and white sack of feline evil, who just stuck her head into a nice bowl of millk-laden breakfast that I was eagerly anticipating...)
Here you go. One thing I had an issue with is that I couldn't get it to work without restarting the course. I had the slide restart at initial state and that may have worked if I had used more than one slide.
Bruce, back to work now
LOL...
It's now just a question of selling this to someone as a "...fun interaction based on the concept of choice and random events....", and then I can invoice for the time spent!
Bruce
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