DaisyWorld / DaisyBall
Explore pressing environmental issues
Books by Ginger Booth
Explore ancient Mesopotamia
James Lovelock invented DaisyWorld (on paper) to explain the Gaia Hypothesis - that living things interact with their environment to keep their own living conditions within comfortable bounds. I felt this cried out for a simulator demonstration, and built it as the first proof-of-concept for online CourseWare in 1997.
Originally in Java, now in HTML5.
The Habitable Planet is a Webby-honored Annenberg course on environmental issues. I built 5 simulators for the course in Flash in 2007, and reimplemented them in HTML5 with the latest data in 2014-2015.
Author of over 30 science fiction and nonfiction books.
ArchaeoSim 4 was the first major teaching simulator on my HTML5 CourseWare base. It debuted to undergrads at Yale University in Fall 2014.
ArchaeoSim explores sudden climate change in a rain-fed farming civilization in ancient Mesopotamia.
Tech: Cross-browser, including mobile.
I'm a freelance Web programmer with decades of experience, largely in interactive graphics. I've been developing for the Internet since 1994.
Recently I'm a science fiction author.
As a programmer, I focus on single source technologies for cross-browser, cross-platform support. Full software life-cycle, software architecture through specification, design, development, documentation, deployment, and ongoing support. Or whatever subset you need.
As a subcontractor for interactive marketing firms, I've bid and implemented the tricky bits, such as product configurators, or a custom data-driven interactive map. But I developed most of my Portfolio as high-level teaching courseware for universities, starting with Yale.
Technology marches on. Most of these beautiful applications no longer work. I'd love to update them, if someone offers funding.
Expertise includes:
Please see my Portfolio of simulators and other online applications. And my Resume.
Available for Web programming and technical writing - please contact me.