Ruler
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Description & Goals
Summary
This is a very simple Activity which provides non-interactive screen images of a ruler, cm and mm grids, and a cm checker board.
The checker broard is mainly intended as a photo target, though moving your head in and out shows interesting perception distortions.
Goals
- Provide an accessible tool to measure screen-sized objects.
- Encourage length/area measurement, counting.
Collaboration
None direct. Intended as a supporting tool for exploring the world.
Visual Design
Screenshots
From Ruler-1.xo
Development
It is not clear how/whether useful these will be, but it seemed worth trying.
I attempted to have a low knowledge barrier to use, while still having some thought provoking subtleties. But as a corollary to "if it wasn't tested, it doesn't work", this hasn't yet been user tested, so... . I would appreciate feedback from folks with xo's. I will try before TRIAL-2 deadline to print some mockups and test those.
There are lots of variations which could be tried. But, available developer time is limited.
Status
Feature Requests
Implementation Discussion
Version History
Source
RPMs
- None available
Resources
Functional Test
Basic
Check the size of the screen ruler with a real physical ruler.
Secondary
Wander around measuring things with your xo. Feedback encouraged.
History
- 2007-11-29 Ruler-2.xo New name. Initial Localization (ar,de,en,es,nl,pt,ru,th). Added rules to edge of screen and laptop. Added crufty unlabled progractors.
- 2007-08-08 Renamed activity to Ruler.
- 2007-07-13 Rule-1.xo Considered renaming project to Ruler from Rule. Haven't yet. People don't like the current name. And as this is more of a tool than an "activity", we could stop bending over backwards to follow HIG naming guidelines that a verb be used. This might also simplify translation. Though "rule" is more applicable to the grids than "ruler" is. Blech.