Easy way to build scientific models?

Teoman

Hey I'm just wondering if there's a good programme or website out there out there that lets you build scientific models, that can be easily copied and pasted into a word document. In the past, I've done it in word but that takes a while and the formatting usually messes up.

Something along the lines of this

http://01.edu-cdn.com/files/static/mcgrawhillprof/9780071621861/THE_CIRCULAR_FLOW_MODEL_01.GIF

Thank you

andrew

Microsoft Visio is a program for creating charts just like this. You could download a free trial or something?

Ostrom

Try Adobe illustrator?

KyussBishop

Steve Keen is actually doing a Kickstarter for a program which does something similar to this, called Minksy:


You can get the latest beta of it here (the Sourceforge site for the project, doesn't seem to be up-to-date apparently):
http://www.hpcoders.com.au/Minsky.1.2.D98-win-dist.tar.gz

It's quite good, albeit a bit limited at the moment; the Kickstarter campaign for it was launched a week ago, so worth chipping in a bit if you like it; I think it will become a significant enough program for helping to reform economics.

thebman

Dia
http://projects.gnome.org/dia/

Teoman

Tanks all

Capt'n Midnight

openoffice draw, say cheaper than visio