Algodoo

Interesting scene, but I must admit that I don't understand it.

BTW - Did you read my PM to you in the forum?

Well, if you don't understand it, then most other users won't either. This scene may be of interest to engineering students.

I got your PM. Thanks.

If I try to understand this, one has to imagine the shape as beeing a bendable piece of metal, for example as a connection between 2 parts of something. The scene now shows the propertys of such a connection when a force is applied to 1 side, displaying both the grade of bending as the stress on the whole thing.

I couldn't have said it better, so I put it in the description.

Wow, thanks a lot!

There are really many interesting things in your scene,
at my slow grade of learning-curve it will be mainly 2 things first:
1) you declared a local function which is saved ( so the underscore "_"
is in front of it ) which you probably set by putting the code
_abs:=(x)=>{
x < 0 ? {-1.0 * x} : {x}
}
into the black-top-edit-entry of the script to have f(x)=|x| =abs(x) availlable in your hinge.
I added this in my thyme-wiki! Special thanks.

2) you managed to display a slider for the thruster-group
( am not sure how to make this on my own yet)

Dr. Balk

To display a slider for the thruster-group, select multiple thrusters (left-click first, CTRL left-click the second) and then right click on one of them. Pull the menu to the side if you want it to stay open.