Poietic Playground

IMPORTANT: This is just an unstable and experimental prototype.

IMPORTANT: If you want to contribute, please read below.

An educational tool, a virtual laboratory for modelling and simulation of dynamical systems using the Stock and Flow methodology.

Part of the Open Poiesis project.

Primers

The following literature is a good start with the methodology used in the playground:

• Thinking In Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows
• Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World by John D. Sterman

Prerequisites

Uses Swift programming language and requires SDL3 library.

• On MacOS: brew install sdl3
• On Linux: apt-get install libsdl3-dev

See SDL installation instructions for more details.

Install Swift:

• On MacOS: Install Xcode.
• On other platforms: Install Swift

Build and Run

The application needs its fonts fetched once before the first build:

./Scripts/fetch-resources
swift build
swift run

Once the resources are fetched, swift build is enough.

See Also

• Poietic Core – Model and design representation library
• Poietic Flows – Stock and Flow simulation library

Contributing

All humans are more than welcome to contribute to the project.

Read more in the Contribution Policy file.

Authors

• Stefan Urbanek

Credits

This package includes code from the following libraries:

• ImGui
• ImGuiFD
• stb
• SDL3