Simulation Lab Pack: 9 models offline + lesson cards + 100-seed charts
Nine simulations as files that run with no internet: the seven game-theory models from the Shorts, plus two from the physics shelf. Open any one from a USB stick or a laptop with no wifi and it plays exactly like the free lab page: the pond, the hunt, the cheater, the bystander, the bar, the village and the $20 auction, with the same sliders, the Run / Step / Reset buttons, the counterfactual run beside the real one, and a Share button.
The two new models, the enzyme that has to wait and the 32 metronomes on a rolling board, are the same ones playable free on the lab site (https://isaac-sim-lab.sites.tab.bot/), here as offline files with lesson cards.
What is in the pack:
- 9 offline models + 9 lesson cards (seven game-theory dilemmas, an enzyme that has to wait, and 32 metronomes that fall into step); every file opens in any browser, nothing to install, no internet needed
- the lesson cards, one per model: every parameter with its default and what moving it does, the exact seed and settings behind the video, the end rule, three things to try, and the rules in one paragraph, with the real citation (Hardin 1968, Rousseau / Skyrms, Axelrod / Nowak & May, Darley & Latane, Arthur 1994, Kermack & McKendrick 1927, Shubik 1971; Michaelis & Menten 1913 for the enzyme, Pantaleone 2002 for the metronomes)
- Run 100 seeds: a button in every file that runs your sliders 100 times and draws every ending on one chart, with your own run in dark ink. The spread of a game-theory model is the lesson, and this is the only place that draws it.
- seeds.json with the seven video seeds and settings, and a README
Made for teachers, clubs, tutors and the curious. Personal and classroom use. Fonts under the SIL Open Font License.
Pay what you want from $2. The free lab stays free, with no ads and no sign-up, because of people who take the pack home.
The free lab: https://isaac-sim-lab.sites.tab.bot
Isaac Oppenheimer Studio