Dissect an Animal Without Harming It

Over 20 years ago, Stu of Duncan Software, wrote Dry Labs Plus. It provides a highly realistic simulation of the dissection of a number of animals including a fetal pig, a frog, a rat, a perch, a crayfish, and an earthworm. It has been used to educate many students and saved the lives of countless small animals.

Dry Lab Plus in action

Stu has continually refreshed Dry Lab Plus over those 20 years and authored various versions of it in different tools including Toolbox, Authorware, Director and Flash.

The latest version has been, to quote Stu, 'happily' re-written using LiveCode. It runs on OS X and Windows.

You can find out much more about it at Duncan Software.

Let children safely experiment with electricity and save light bulbs

Some time ago Graham Samuel wrote a program with LiveCode to allow kids to experiment with simple electrical circuits without using up lightbulbs. The program runs on PC and Mac and is sold to UK schools by an educational publisher, SoftTeach. Recently Graham created a version that runs on iPad - the new version took just a few hours, despite the fact that the iPad didn't exist when the original program was created. The screenshot shows the iPad version.

Simulate landscape lighting effects

Scott Rossi developed this extremely realistic lighting simulator in LiveCode.

Simulate the effect of drugs

Michael Lew, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne, developed a range of simulators in LiveCode for university student practicals that can be used instead of feeding drugs to animals. This one is an agonist concentration-reponse curve simulator.

Teach students about anaesthetics

Michael Lew, senior lecturer in pharmacology at the University of Melbourne, used LiveCode to develop a simulator to teach medical and veterinary students about the movement of anaesthetics around the body.