UlyssesBlue is a genius

UlyssessBlue came up with a Foal Genotype Calculator that lets you input Sire and Dam genotypes and gives you the possible genotypes of their foal. Try it out!

I am wondering if there are any code-savvy EVers who would like to work on building...

A Punnett square calculator!!

Similar to this website, but specific for Equiverse - you would enter the genotype of the sire and dam and get predictions for the color of the foal.

Punnett Square Calculator

I'm wondering if I can dig up enough coding knowledge to build something like this out of HTML/CSS using forms.

Last edited on 2017-02-19 at 12:26:33 by Ðemure

You'll need Javascript for any sort of calculator. HTML/CSS are just for display and formatting. I considered making something like this a while back, but abandoned it since it rapidly got too complex for my skills, and similar calculators already existed around the internet. They're not exactly the same as EV genetics though, although some come close.

It would be good to have something that does work for EV, but this is likely to be a massive project. A professional coder could do it (I'm not one), or perhaps several amateur ones. I could maybe help out, but a project of this size and complexity is beyond me on my own.

Interesting! I haven't done anything with Javascript. I think I'm going to do some planning and see how much coding we'll need. How far did you get before you gave up?

Just planning and research, mostly. Let me dig up what I've got...

*edit* not much, but it's easy enough to throw together the basics for the form and such. It's the javascript calculations in the background that are hard. I'll flesh out a few things then put it online somewhere you can have a look at it.

Last edited on 2017-02-17 at 20:18:47 by UlyssesBlue (spare)

Ok, it's online here.

This just shows the raw code, not what it does. To see what it does copy it all into a text file on your computer, save as a .html file, then open that file in your browser. This is just the basics so far - a form and a few calculations to read everything in properly, nothing more.

Feel free to edit it, add suggestions, whatever. I've got a copy on my computer so it's not as if you can break anything. ;)

Hmm, interesting. I will be pretty (read: somewhat) useless with the code part of that. Copying and pasting the whole genotype is much faster than the dropdown lists I had in mind. Or do you copy the horse URL? Did you design this with the whole genotype in mind, or just base coats?

Edit: I see where it says dam/sire genes now. Disregard ;)

Last edited on 2017-02-17 at 21:03:05 by Ðemure

So what exactly do you want this program to do? Just produce a punnet square for each gene? Or other things as well?

I've updated the code at the link above. If you run it it will now calculate the foal's Extension genes, and the probabilities of each. You can see why I called this project enormous and complicated. :P

I only have a passing familiarity with javascript, so my code is probably a lot more horrendous than it could be, even though it does work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Sooooooooo....... I think I might have got something working. :P
Foal Genotype Calculator
More than a bit chuffed about this, considering I once wrote this off as impossible. :D

Known issues: overo is able to produce OO as a possibility, despite this being forbidden on EV.
Also, the output is a bit horrendous because I just slapped something together for testing purposes. I'll fix this next.

=O I love it! We need everyone to try this out!

The next piece of information I would be curious about it converting the genes into a phenotype (Ee = Black, Ee Dd = Grullo, etc).

That's gotta be a massive list...

I play on my mobile mostly and I can't get it to give me the calculations.

This should be stickied.. Or a new post just with the calculator info/updates from UlyssesBlue (spare) should be stickied. This is a nice little tool.

oh wow

ulysses you should make a separate post with a link to this so it can be stickied!

@Blue Moon - what mobile browser do you use? Have you tried it on another browser? Let us know!

UlyssesBlue, I went to click on the suggestion link and it opened the link within a target/frame and I couldn't find where to post the suggestion.