Find The Length of a Coastline - Programming - Part 1
About a week ago I wrote an article where I hypothesized that I could find the length of a coast-line using an algorithm based on a map or satellite image.
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Jeremy Aaron Heminger Systems Programmer / Web Developer Located in Southern California
Javascript
Spirographs
Inspired by this video I decided to make a good ole' spriograph program. It's true that I was playing around with these types of programs when I was like, 15...well to be fair I guess I started playing around with recursive for loops and writing vectors when I was like ... "8". But, I really didn't have a real understanding on what I was doing until my teen years after taking my first programming classes in junior high. Mr. Jones...Big guy.
Find a Fibonacci Number using Javascript
Today I was watching this nifty video on Triponacci Numbers: https://youtu.be/e7SnRPubg-g and decided to better understand the math I would recreate his demonstrations using Javascript...(always helps me).
So here's my function
Multiple Canvases Are...Not Faster?
For the longest time I was under the impression that multiple HTML5 canvases would translate to faster performance.
Doom Style Simple 3D in Javascript
A LOOOooong time ago...well 2001-2002'ish (I think). I was playing around a lot with Game Maker by Mark Overmars. There was developer named Brent who went by the handle Freegadgets who made a 3D engine Gadget 3D. It was really quite impressive. He started off by simply remaking a simple version of Doom. Over time he expanded it and eventually it used actual 3D polygons. It was loads of fun to build games with it and very easy. It was also a great learning tool. (As with MANY of my old projects I lost most of the games and models I built during this period).
Simple RPG Room Example - Wes Mantooth
View the source code here: https://github.com/061375/Wes.Mantooth/tree/master/wip/rpg
See The demo here: http://wesmantooth.jeremyheminger.com/wip/rpg/simple.php
Use your computers arrow keys to control the player.
Fun 404 Pages
For fun on occasion I will build a simple animation for the 404 "document not found" page of a website I am building. Over the last few years working for Geographics I built a few. There is an office cat named Zip who is often my muse and is the subject of all of these animations. Unfortunately I do these on my spare time and I tended to quit before they were finished.
The Chaos Game (Sierpinski Triangle)
This is a fun little experiment that proves that strange attractors really exist. The result can be easily reproduced in the real world with a ruler, a pencil and a piece of paper. It's not just some philosophical idea or some far out complicated mathematics.
K-Nearest Algorithm
Recently I started following tutorials on YouTube provided by Google on using and understanding deep-learning. This is a subject I have had some interest in recently. These tutorials not only gave me a foot-hold on how to use deep-learning, but have also given me an opportunity to start using Python as a language.
Optimizing Wes Mantooth
The whole idea behind this project has never been to create games. It was really an exercise to optimize my Javascript abilities. Generally at work if I write Javascript it's using jQuery and due to time constraints it can often be quite ugly and not very efficient.
So I built a list of tools I felt would be necessary for a game engine and currently they aren't exactly efficient or easy to use.
For example the multi-canvas example currently can run about 60 objects on screen before it starts to slow down. .. That's terrible.
