These are deployed here: http://stepheneb.github.io/seasons/index.html
To run locally: ruby -run -e httpd . -p 9090 and open http://localhost:9090/index.html
The code for integrating this work as a WISE4 step is located here: wise4/node.
There are rake tasks for generating and locally deploying the WISE4 step version of seasons.
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rake wise4:generate_step
generate WISE4 step in: ./wise4/dist/node/seasons
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rake wise4:copy_step_to_local_vle
copy WISE4 seasons step to local vle: $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/vlewrapper/vle/node/seasons
The copy_step_to_local_vle task is useful for testing the seasons step if you have a local instance of WISE4 running.
See: https://code.google.com/p/wise4/wiki/StableWISEDeploymentModel
These three Seasons Activities all now support persistence to json:
- Investigation 1: What Temperature Patterns Do You See?
- Investigation 2: What Is the Shape of Earth's Orbit?
- Investigation 3: How Does Earth’s Tilt Affect Temperature?
When any one of these activities are loaded a seasons_activity object is created with toJSON() and fromJSON() methods:
Startup activity and save initial state:
a1 = seasons_activity.toJSON()
Add rows to experiment table, manipulate your view of the Earth and save a new state:
a2 = seasons_activity.toJSON()
Restore initial activity state: the experiment table and graph will be empty and the position of the Earth will be as it was when the visualization first started.
seasons_activity.fromJSON(a1)
Restore second activity state: the experiment table and graph will be filled as before and the position of the Earth will be as it was when the state was saved the second time.
seasons_activity.fromJSON(a2)