BOOMLAB -  Sharing the Science of Boomerangs - Boomarology

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Computer Simulations

 

Simulating the flight of a boomerang with a computer is a challenge for boomerologists.  

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Aspiring boomerologists William and Jack check out their dad's BOOMLAB simulator instead of going to bed.  Jack is now a senior assistant boomerologist.

BOOMLAB - this is my effort details are here ...  It aims to let you create different boomerang shapes in a boomerang editor and see how they fly

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WXBums.

Georg Hennig of Bavaria took Hess's program and Gerhard Bertling's algorithm and put a nice interface to it.  

 

Check out his page. http://www.hennigbuam.de/georg/boomerang_download.html

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Boomsim was originally written by Gerhard Bertling of Germany and added to by John Mauro  and Jim Martellotti. It is a BASIC program compiled for a Classic Macintosh Computer.  Other work is also contributed my Martin Claussen.

Ulf Valentine's simulator seems to be off line at the moment but you can see details here

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You can use the link to download a zip file of Georg's work. Extract all the files and run wxBumms.exe (after a accepting security warnings).  The Sim interface is  German, but you can select English in Fenster-->Sprache wählen-->English.

Also there is a PDF is in the folder “Facharbeit.pdf"

 

Cheers and nice work Georg

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Check out the You-tube video on Ulf's channel here

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