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Experiment 20090607

james on June 8th, 2009

Experiment 20090607

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Experiment 20090606

james on June 8th, 2009

Experiment 20090606 (for saturday – i was painting a house.)

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WEEeeed

james on June 5th, 2009

*cough*

WEEeeed (yeah, that kind)

I don’t even wanna SAY how much time this took me to build.  Everything I tried to do got screwed up.  This is, like, Plan X.

Music by G. Love & Special Sauce. Used without permission*.

*please don’t sue me.  i have nothing but love for y’all.  i buy your albums.

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Experiment 20090604

james on June 4th, 2009

Experiment 20090604

There are occasional anomalies which I haven’t figured out.  More soon.

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[UPDATE 2009-06-05 19:10] This from the developer of the SVG integration plugin for jQuery, Keith Wood:

Hi James

There was a problem with initialising the animation in some cases, which resulted in the start values being set to 0. This has been fixed in v1.4.0, due out tomorrow.

Cheers

Keith

So when 1.4 is out, I’ll put out a v.2 so you can see the difference.  And I think I’ll add the music as Mike suggested it would go well with this.

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[UPDATE 2009-06-09 13:04] SVG Integration 1.4 came out.  Here’s a re-release of Experiment 20090604 with the new library which solved the issue with the shooting branches.  Sorry to those who like those.

Experiment 20090604 v0.2

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Flight

james on June 3rd, 2009

Flight

This one  plays with a lot of randomization.  Some of my other scripts before randomized things, but this one has many factors – gravity, current, change in current, rate of change, frequency of current changes- all this is on a randomized timeline.  Constants are forward direction and gravity.  This one also defines boundaries and gently alters reality to keep our guy in the picture.

I’d like to work more on this to allow the bg to move along with our graceful flyer.  But not now.

[UPDATE 2009-06-04 00:32] Added the auto-scroll.  It’s pretty sweet now. I’m happy with it. It now makes use of the ScrollTo jQuery plugin.

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2050

james on June 3rd, 2009

i want to learn kung fu

A day late and a dollar short as usual, I humbly present 2050, inspired by Steve’s story Software, as well as some fairly popular movie … what’s the name again?

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Experiment 20090601

james on June 2nd, 2009

Get ready to be bored! Experiment 20090601

My excuse for this one is that I had to watch a movie with the wife last night, and then I was too tired to do what I really wanted, plus I needed to teach myself color animation before I get to do the script I have in mind. There: 3 perfectly legit reasons for this boring production.

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FaceDance Bookmarklet

james on May 31st, 2009

FaceDance (this is a bookmarklet)

Instructions:

1. Drag the link above to your ‘Favorites’ or ‘Bookmarks.’
2. Login to Facebook.
3. Click the ‘FaceDance’ bookmarklet.

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Which Fictional Character Are You?

james on May 31st, 2009

WFCAY
It has bugs that I’ll work out later. Gotta get to graduation. (This script is for yesterday, by the way)

[UPDATE 17:54] I fixed the ‘point’ bug which always had you being Point from The Point, but the application could use some improvements in general.  For example, one of the questions is a 2 part question where you’d simultaneously want to answer ‘yes’ and ‘no.’  Ther is also the chance you’d have a tie, so there should be tiebreakers and stuff, but I don’t have time to retool it.  It’s on to the next script and I’ll finally be caught up.

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Experiment 20090529

james on May 30th, 2009

o yeah

Experiment 20090529

Another SVG/jQuery medly, Experiment 20090529 plays witht he SVG canvas, a circle, animation, and finishes with a little DOM manipulation, proving that I can add SVG animation to the background of virtually anything.  This opens up some interesting possibilities.  For example, I always wondered how one could construct an interface like a database modeller, or one similar to what you see in tinderbox.  Sure, it’s easy to use the jQuery UI to make nice boxes that can be filled with all kinds of good things, but what about the smooth, curvy lines that connect node to node?

With some imagination, planning, and an engine that keeps track of the position, height, and width of floating DOM nodes, I think it would be within our reach to add that polish that is typical in desktop apps.

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