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An Exercise in Modern HTML and CSS

Tue, 06/25/2019 - 05:53

http://adftw.jeremyheminger.com/

When I began building websites the idea of viewing it on a mobile device wasn't thought of or even possible. If there was any thought given to various display resolutions it was mostly solved by adding percents to the containing columns of a table and nesting that table within a table set at a maximum width with the most common resolution. I think that was about 1024 x 768 but it might have even been 640 x 480.

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Newton's Cannon

Wed, 10/17/2018 - 18:57

Newton's cannonball was a thought experiment Isaac Newton used to hypothesize that the force of gravity was universal...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_cannonball

The cannon fires a ball that falls to earth. The cannon adds some power to the next shot and the cannonball goes a bit farther. Eventually the ball flies with enough velocity to break the planets gravity and falls into orbit. The ball literally falls around the planet indefinitely.

SVG Preloader with Javascript

Sun, 03/18/2018 - 13:31

I am currently working on a CRM that will be including a feature to display statistics on a large screen.
A feature I proposed was a nice animated timer to display when each module would update.

This timer should be dynamic and should have the ability to have easy set parameters; update time, color, etc...

So anyways, this is what I came up with: SVG-Preloader GitHub Repo.

Basic usage is quite simple:

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Wes Mantooth

Wed, 03/14/2018 - 19:15

Wes Mantooth is a game development framework. It's a hobby and a tool for learning to optimize vanilla Javascript. It's not intended for production use and I probably will never actually build a game with it. If I intended to build a web-based game I would likely use Unity. 

Whoa - Accidental Fractal..."ish"

Thu, 03/01/2018 - 19:57

I was attempting to add a cracked windshield to the player tank in my Battlezone remake built in Javascript. I wanted to built the crack procedurally and it's "working". But it's not very believable as a cracked windshield just yet. I was able to add a pretty cool effect that shakes the screen but, the cracked windshield currently either resembles fractured rock or in many cases modern art. 

Experimenting with Inkscape

Sun, 02/25/2018 - 16:18

Open source programs can be very good or ... not so good. But it's free. So there's not much point in complaining.

This one so far is quite good. I read complaints that Inkscape can be slow and I imagine with larger projects this may be true but, so far. It seems to work quite well. The interface is easy to understand and the program seems to work well.

In just about an hour of tutorials I was able to reproduce this old image I drew in Flash some 10 years ago using Inkscape.

The new image is an SVG so, that's cool.

 

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