The Wolfram Demonstrations Project is an open-source collection of interactive programmes called Demonstrations. It is hosted by Wolfram Research. At its launch, it contained 1300 demonstrations but has grown to over 10,000. The site won a Parents' Choice Award in 2008.
Wolfram Research's staff organizes and edits the Demonstrations, which may be created by any user of Mathematica, then freely published1 and freely downloaded.
Technology
The Demonstrations run in Mathematica 6 or above and in Wolfram CDF Player, which is a free modified version of Wolfram Mathematica2 and available for Windows, Linux, and macOS3 and can operate as a web browser plugin. Demonstrations can also be embedded into a website.4 Each Demonstration page includes a snippet of JavaScript code in the Share section of the sidebar.
The Demonstrations typically consist of a direct user interface to a graphic or visualization that dynamically responds to user actions. Each Demonstration also has a description of the concept. The website is organized by topic, for example: science,5 art, and biology.
References
References
- Throwing beanbags in Mathematica 6 Archived 2007-10-15 at the Wayback Machine, Scientific Computing, May 17, 2007.
- Math Games Archived 2007-05-04 at the Wayback Machine MAA Online, May 1, 2007.
- Adventures with the Wolfram Demonstrations Project John Wass, Scientific Computing
- Kaurov, Vitaliy (24 April 2012). "Add a Wolfram Demonstration to Your Site in One Easy Step".
- Molecular Wolfram Demonstrations ScienceBase