Reminds me of this [1] I made back in 2005 in Flash action script, thankfully bought back to life by Ruffle [2].

You can fix the ends of the string by pressing space. When both ends are fixed, you can you can drag the beads and release them.

No big deal, but hey I was quite happy with myself back then..

[1] https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/267616

[2] https://ruffle.rs/

Legendary

He also made circuitjs, a very useful circuit simulator which I regularly use for prototyping. It lets you modify and probe elements in real time unlike spice simulators, so it is faster to modify a design in it.

I use spice simulators to check the final design since sometimes circuitjs can have instability issues in complex circuits involving stuff like the nonideal op amp.

https://www.falstad.com/circuit/circuitjs.html

This is a nice one to play with:

https://www.falstad.com/rendezvous/

I have fond memories of fiddling with the wave simulations on this website during high school!

This is pure gold, especially the rippld tank, 1d quantum mechanics, and the circuit simulator.

I cited it as one of the remarkable steps in the history of educational simulations, https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.8.081809, figure 2 (a broader overview in https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2024/05/science-games-explorable-ex...)

Does anyone know what are Paul Falstad’s project right now?

(I haven’t seen any new. Not sure if perfect things do not need fixes, or some switch to another field, or a burnout, or he has ascended to godhood - out of a few options.)

this is so cool, thanks for sharing!