necrodev: xwd

On my main computer (I have three, for various reasons, the most salient being that I am an incredible nerd) I have a folder called "webdesign". This folder contains everything I have ever created using HTML, Javascript, and other web technologies.

Since I have been doing this for over ten years, there is a lot of stuff in this folder. Much of it is unfinished, because generally speaking (as I mention in the altastic faq), my creative process goes like this:

1. Have an idea for a page.
2. Make a rudimentary plan and produce a working version using the knowledge I have at the time.
3. Learn the very next day that there is a much better technology I could have used.
4. Decide to redo the old page using said technology.
5. Suddenly have an idea for a new page that wouldn't have been possible without the new technology.
6. Work on the new page, putting the old page on hold for the moment.
7. Forget entirely about the old page.

Once in a while, though, I go back through all the myriad folders within folders and see if I can find something to salvage.

$\frac{p}{r}$: just the fracts, ma'am

This is the first in a series of posts in which I plan to document myself attempting to wring some mathematics out of Javascript. With Mathjax we can now display complex formulae and equations easily; with Raphaël, we have at least a glimmer of a hope of displaying graphs. I have a number of ideas in mind involving both these technologies, but I thought it would be better to start out small.

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The Fractionizer

Decimal:

Improper fraction

Integer + Proper Fraction

Yeah, I gave one of my doohickeys a name ending in -izer. So unlike me. Unfortunately the usual suffix* would have resulted in The Fractioninator, which even I concede would perhaps have been a step too far.

早口言葉#7

A persimmonious tongue twister this time: 「隣の客はよく柿食う客だ」

foolish microsoft

I thought this was just a silly meme, but if the guys at Microsoft are putting it into finished products, it's gone too far.

vector arc playground

I've recently started working with Raphaël after a long hiatus. I'd forgotten how fun it is. The current project uses a lot of curves, and so I found myself working with a lot of paths that use arcs. Since they are kinda hard to understand intuitively, I made a little playground to help me remember what does what.