This should have existed in 1994
It did. Here's my personal site from that era, complete with javascript "Layer" (in Netscape) (or DIV in IE3) tags doing the wiggling:
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#42I opened this on my Notebook, and it's Fan spun out of control! it might be my ancient hardware, but this is rather CPU intensive it seems. But the effect is fun, and cool non the less! (on Linux, Xorg + Frirefox)
I have a water-cooled i7 6700k and the rising fan speed was the first thing I heard as well.
Normally this does not happen when browsing the web.
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#44Appreciate all the feedback. Merry Christmas!
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#45move these things into initWiv() and cache them: var speed = parseFloat(wivCurve.parentNode.dataset.wivSpeed) var height = parseFloat(wivCurve.parentNode.dataset.wivHeight) var tightness = parseFloat(wivCurve.parentNode.dataset.wivTightness) var thickness = parseFloat(wivCurve.parentNode.dataset.wivThickness) var ctx = wivCurve.getContext("2d"); do this once on init, the canvas context remembers it anyway: ctx.stroke…
Thank you for the thoughtful code review. It is already running smoother
https://github.com/jjkaufman/wiv.js/pull/5 if you are curious
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#46This should have existed in 1994
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#47This should have existed in 1994
Absolutely
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#48This is rad and obnoxious at the same time
The quintessential eighties.
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#49This would have been absolutely huge on MySpace.
MySpace was rad
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#50This would have been absolutely huge on MySpace.
It might still catch on on https://neocities.org/
neocities is rad