Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

• Preface to Cinderella.2.0
• Preface to Cinderella 1.2

Introduction

• What Is Cinderella?
  • A Dynamic Geometry Program
  • An Environment for Physics Simulation
  • A Programming Environment
• Technical Background
• Installation and Updating
• Theoretical Background
• What Is New in Cinderella.2
• How to Read This Manual

A Quick Start

• Introduction to the Tutorials
  • Pappus's Theorem
  • Three-Bar Linkage
  • Kepler Ellipses
  • Scripting the Seeds of a Sunflower

Reference Guide

• General Operations (loading, saving, selecting, etc.)
• Dynamic Geometry (using Cinderella for pure geometry)
  • The Main Menu
  • Toolbars
  • Operations for Elementary geometry
    • Move Mode
    • Interactive Modes

      • 	Add a Point
        	Add a Line
        	Line through a Point
        	Add a Parallel
        	Add a Perpendicular
        	Add a Line with a Fixed Angle
        	Add a Circle
        	Circle by Radius
        	Circle by Fixed Radius
        	Midpoint
        	Segment

    • Definition Modes

      • 	Center
        	Angle Bisector
        	Compass
        	Mirror
        	Circle by Three Points
        	Conic by Five Points
        	Ellipse by Foci
        	Parabola by Focus and Directrix
        	Hyperbola by Foci
        	Polar of a Point
        	Polar of a Line
        	Polygon
        	Intersection
        	Arc
        	Angle Mark

    • Measurements

      • 	Distance
        	Angle
        	Area

    • Special Modes

      • 	Text
        	Function
        	Locus
        	Animation

    • Conic Operations

      • 	Conic by Five Points
        	Ellipse by Foci
        	Parabola by Focus and Directrix
        	Hyperbola by Foci

    • Polygons
  • Views and geometries
    • Geometries
    • Views
  • Transformations and bases
    • Transformation Modes
      • General Use of Transformations
      • Translation
      • Rotation
      • Reflection
      • Similarity
      • Affine Transformation
      • Projective Transformation
      • Möbius Transformation
      • Inversion of Transformations
      • Composition of Transformations
      • Mapping of Elements
      • Transformations by Functions
    • Setting a Basis
  • Transformation groups and IFS
    • Iterated Function Systems
    • Transformation Groups

• CindyLab (simulation of experiments in physics)
  • Simulating masses and forces
    • Elementary Mechanics
    • Cinderella and Physics
    • CindyLab and CindyScript
  • Reference
    • The Elements of CindyLab
    • The objects

      • 	Free Mass
        	Velocity
        	Gravity
        	Sun
        	Magnetic Field
        	Rubber Band
        	Spring
        	Coulomb Force
        	Floor
        	Bouncer

    • Environment
    • Many-Particle Systems
    • Animations and CindyLab
    • Geometry and CindyLab
    • Scripting Physical Environments

• CindyScript (programming Cinderella)
  • Reference
    • General Concepts
    • Entering Program Code
    • Variables and Functions
    • Accessing Geometric Elements
    • Control Operators (if, for, while, ...)
    • Arithmetic Operators (+,-,*,/,sin(),cos()....)
    • Boolean Operators
    • String Operators
    • Lists (the general concepts)
      • Elementary List Operations
      • Advanced List Operations
      • Lists of Geometric Elements
      • Vectors and Matrices
    • Drawing (draw(), plot(),...)
      • Appearance of Objects
      • Elementary Drawing Functions
      • Function Plotting
      • Texts and Tables
      • TeX Rendering
      • Script Coordinate System
    • Geometric Operators (join, meet, ...)
    • Calculus (draw(), plot(),...)
    • Syntherella
      • MIDI functions
      • Sampled-Audio Functions
    • Special Operators
      • Interaction with Geometry
      • File Management
      • Console Output
      • Timing and Animations
      • User input
      • Interaction with CindyLab
      • Magic Operators

• Inspector (How to manage the properties of objects?)
  • Info Block
  • Inspecting Appearance
  • Traces and Arrows
  • Controlling the Views

• Copy, Paste, and Macros (Cinderellas makro concept)

• HTML Export (generating interactive html pages)

• Scribbling (using Cinderella with a pen-driven input device)