FIREPEGS is a toy for making dynamical patterns. It's always simple, but can be easy or very challenging. Solving a problem, you see the colors and there positions in space. You just don't know what causes what, and when.
Do you want to learn FIREPEGS?
- I DO.The red index is pointing at the links to some of my projects. While watching, you may click on firepegs to turn them on. Firepegs are the rounded squares changing their colors.
When you are ready to go on, please start the first project named Around. Did you start it?
- I DID.
Now would you please set the mode selector to ST (which means, SET)? Did you switch it?
- I DID.
The time has stopped. Click on TICK to advance it. Watch how firepegs work. If firepeg has "0" in the middle, it's sleeping. If it has "1", it's waiting to fire up. If it has "2", it's up and glowing. Every firepeg passes the fire to the next firepeg in the loop.
Are you ready for the next step?
BACK
- I AM.
Set the mode selector on RD (which means, READY). Remark how everything has changed. In this mode you can tinker with firepegs and create new patterns.
Are you prepared to learn how to work with the colors?
BACK - I AM.
Choose a color (not yellow). Click on the yellow center of any firepeg to change it's color to your color. Choose another color, color another firepeg or firepegs. In this lesson I allow you to change only the colors, but try not to click on anything else.
Are you done?
BACK - I AM.
I'd like you to learn the quick fix: if you clicked on a wrong peg, just click on it again!
When you give firepeg a new color, it remembers the old one. Clicking with the same color for the second time recalls the old color. Click more to see how it works. Did you try?
BACK - I DID.
OK then. So you got those four firepegs colored as you like. Let's bring them back to life. Switch the mode selector to GO and watch. You may choose another pattern, switch to RD, change the colors and return to GO. This lesson is over. Good bye!
BACK
Around
X-Blinker
Eight
Blocks
Complexity
Bird
Wires
Spirals
Waves
Fireworks
Brainy Inchworm
Brainless Inchworm
Chewing
Colors
Rain
Chevrons
Fish
Race
(you click)
X-Over
Aether
(you click)
Four 4s
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