Stumbling Friday is an idea a came up with a few weeks back. I push the stumble button 5 times and whatever page I land on after the 5th push, I will create a post about it.
But to involve my readers I’m going to randomly pick 1 commentator out of every 5 comments. This commentator will get his site/blog stumbled by me and hopefully this will bring in some extra traffic to his/her site/blog. So far I stumbled every commentator who left a message on 1 of my Stumbling Friday posts. Last week I didn’t received a comment on my “Stumbling Friday – 10 Free tools every IT needs” post, but the offer still counts. ![]()
Today the fifth stumble was pretty nice, I stumbled upon the Phun download page.
Phun is a fun 2D physics playground. Just create some squares or rectangles and other things and then push the play button to let the physics do the work.
Phun is written by Emil Ernerfeldt and written and coded in C++ using OpenGL, GLEW, SDL (for window management), SDL_image (for reading images) and boost, including boost_filesystem.
Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction.
You can download the beta version to test it out yourself and I must say it’s a lot of fun if you play around with it. Watch the video to see an example of what you can do with it.
Have fun playing with it, I know I will.
Remember if you leave a comment here, maybe your site/blog will get stumbled by me!
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Posted by B Carter on Feb 23 at 11:36 AM
That is definitely an awesome tool. That’s one thing I love about stumbling, you never know what you’ll find.
Posted by Xio on Feb 28 at 04:39 AM
I do my stumbling every 10AM. And yes, it’s f-u-n. :D
Posted by Eric on Feb 29 at 06:54 AM
KexBrown, I realy liked this stumble also ![]()
B Carter, Xio, stumbling indeed is lots of fun. I’m happy to came up with an idea like this.
Tonight I’m going to stumble again to create a post and instead of picking 1 winner, I’m again going to stumble every commentator to this post. Hope you’ll get some traffic from it afterwards.
Posted by kexbrown on Feb 23 at 03:18 AM
This is without a doubt the coolest Stumble I have seen this year. I haven’t tried the tool yet, but the video was awesome. Definitely makes you think back to your high school Physics classes.
So many options have been programmed into the tool, you can build any object you want. It might even be useful to use it as a prototyping tool. I don’t know how realistic the gravity algorithm is in the software, but an excellent tool. Thanks for stumbling it and then sharing it with us!