Geometry Explorer is designed as an Internet-aware application. The Help system is Web-based, designed as a series of inter-linked Web pages. The program itself can be run as an applet under an Internet browser. Additionally, hyperlinks to Web pages can be inserted directly into the geometry canvas. An instructor can provide students reference links that are accessible from the geometry canvas that they are working on.
Geometry Explorer is designed to facilitate exploration into non-Euclidean geometry. Constructions can be carried out in Euclidean or Non-Euclidean environments. Almost all actions that apply in the Euclidean canvas can be carried out in a Non-Euclidean canvas (with a few important exceptions that depend on the parallel postulate).
Geometry Explorer is designed to assist the classroom teacher. There
is an extensive library of examples that can be used in a geometry
course.
Text areas can be created on the canvas so that additional information
can be included with a construction. If a large amount of textual
information must accompany a construction, this can be included in a
separate
NoteBook with the construction. A fully functional calculator is
included for carrying out detailed calculations with measurements and
other
numerical values. Analytic geometry is supported in a variety of
ways. Finally, there is the ability to make "recordings" of
sequences
of steps (macros) that can then be used in other constructions.