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Author: aolkin

README.md

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+# Collaborative Text Physics Playground
+
+This project was created as an assignment for an Interactive Design course at MIT's
+theater program. Due to the pandemic, creating an interactive project usable by
+many people at once required creating a web interface to the 3D simulator.
+
+The two components (web interface and 3d display) communicate via a redis-backed
+message queue.
+
+### Web Launcher
+
+Run `./web.py` in the `web` subfolder to launch the server, then navigate to the
+provided URL and share it with any others you wish to be able to interact.
+
+![Launcher UI Top Half](docs/launcher-ui-1.png)
+![Launcher UI Bottom Half](docs/launcher-ui-2.png)
+
+### 3D Renderer
+
+Run `./base.py` to launch the renderer, which will display the results of user
+interactions with the web launcher in real-time.
+
+![3D Playground Screenshot](docs/3d-playground.png)

base.py

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 import sys
 
-import pdir
-
 #from direct.showbase.PythonUtil import *
 from panda3d.core import loadPrcFileData
 #loadPrcFileData("", "want-directtools #t")