Pre-class Step D · Scientific Inquiry with AI

Simulation Gallery

Nine simulations built by students and faculty on this course, each paired with whatever is known about how it was made. Open them, read the prompts, and check the build times. Every simulation is stored inside this one file.

Open this only after your first specification is written

  1. Find one example whose scope is larger than what you specified, and name the one thing it does that you did not think to ask for.
  2. Find one outside your own discipline, and see how its author handled validation for a phenomenon with no equations.
  3. Note the build times. They are the most useful number here.

Companion file for Building to Understand — Creating AI-Generated Simulations as a Mode of Scientific Inquiry. Scientific Inquiry with AI, LLNL Summer 2026 STEM Education Research Team. Fields marked not recorded were left blank on submission and are shown as blank rather than guessed.