Cinderella.2 Documentation

Welcome to the user's guide! This highly interconnected collection of web pages represents the complete user's guide to The Interactive Geometry Software Cinderella.2. Here, you will learn about all important aspects of the program.


Besides providing support for dynamic geometry, Cinderella.2 supports features that broaden the scope of the program to a wide varitey of interaction scenarios. Compared to the old version of the program, two completely new parts were added: CindyLab, an environment for doing interactive physics experiments, and CindyScript, a high level programming language that allows for fast, flexible and freely programmable interaction scenarios. Although each of the three parts of the program (geometry, physics simulation and scripting) can be used in a standalone manner, the programm unleashes its full power when the three parts are used collaboratively. They are designed in such a way that they seamlessly work together.

In the documentation, each of the three programm parts is treated seperately. At the end of each major section, we give examples that take advantage of using the the constituents together.

Preface

• Preface to Cinderella.2.0
• Preface to Cinderella 1.2
• Table of Contents

Introduction

• What Is Cinderella?
  • A Dynamic Geometry Program
  • An Environment for Physics Simulation
  • A Programming Environment
• Technical Background
• Installation and Updating
• Theoretical Background
• What Is New in Cinderella.2
• How to Read This Manual

A quick start

• Introduction to the Tutorials
• Pappus's Theorem
• Three-Bar Linkage
• Kepler Ellipses
• Scripting the Seeds of a Sunflower

Reference Guide

• General Operations (loading, saving, selecting, etc.)
• Dynamic Geometry (using Cinderella for pure geometry)
• CindyLab (simulation of experiments in physics)
• CindyScript (programming Cinderella)
• Copy, Paste, and Macros (Cinderellas macro concept)
• Inspector (How to manage the properties of objects?)
• HTML Export (generating interactive html pages)
• Scribbling (using Cinderella with a pen-driven input device)

Appendix

• Software License