Describe Geometry Construction Set

In GeoCnstr, you draw:

Then, view information, e.g., perimeter, area, or perform operations, e.g., inscribe circle, bisect side.

Keywords: education, learning, geometry, construction

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Draw a line segment, rectangle, square, triangle, circle.

Select an "interesting point" (small square), e.g., vertex, midpoint, to popup information about an object and perform operations, which add "annotations".

Select/(tag)drag to (copy)move/reshape an object. Scrub to erase: annotations (2.x: if any), then object.

Shapes

LineSeg

A LineSeg displays its midpoint and two endpoints.

Note: currently, y coordinates increase from top to bottom.

Rectangle

A Rectangle displays:

Square

A Square is basically a rectangle with equal sides, with several additional items:

Circle

A Circle displays its center:

and a point on the circle:

Triangle

Vertex

A Triangle displays many points. For best results, try to make it large and/or non-symmetric. A vertex displays:

Side

A side displays its midpoint:

Center

A triangle has several "centers":

Example

Draw a large, asymmetric triangle.

Select midpoint of each side and bisect; intersection is circumcenter; select circumcenter to draw a circumcircle. Scrub triangle once to erase annotations.

Bisect each angle, draw incircle.

Add Medians from each vertex; intersection is centroid.

Add Altitudes from each vertex; intersection is orthocenter.

GeoCnstr Versions

NewtonScript version of GeoCnstr is based on Smalltalk code for learning environments I wrote in the mid-'1970s .

GeoCnstr created with NewtDevEnv; it's 1.x/2.x compatible. Help book created from this HTML document by Newt's Cape.

Version 1.0 (11 Mar 1998)
Future: I may add other operations, objects (trapezoids, ellipses). Implement as stationery?

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