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#81
A fantastically written and extremely technically performant page as always from Bartosz.

Several of the piano key demos ask you to observe what happens when you play multiple keys at once. Is there a way to do this on a desktop PC that I am missing? I had to switch to my phone to try those sections.

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#82
post #81

A fantastically written and extremely technically performant page as always from Bartosz. Several of the piano key demos ask you to observe what happens when you play multiple keys at once. Is there a way to do this on a desktop PC that I am missing? I had to switch to my phone to try those sections.

Use the (computer) keyboard.

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#83
post #81

A fantastically written and extremely technically performant page as always from Bartosz. Several of the piano key demos ask you to observe what happens when you play multiple keys at once. Is there a way to do this on a desktop PC that I am missing? I had to switch to my phone to try those sections.

For me, on desktop, there is a paragraph that says keys can be played with the W E and R keys, and each key has a W E or R on it, but this isn't present on mobile. Maybe the site thinks you desktop browser is mobile for some reason?

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#84
This. This is the internet. I’m glad we can still enjoy quality driven content. To author if you’re here: any ways to support your work?

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#85
post #82
post #81

A fantastically written and extremely technically performant page as always from Bartosz. Several of the piano key demos ask you to observe what happens when you play multiple keys at once. Is there a way to do this on a desktop PC that I am missing? I had to switch to my phone to try those sections.

Use the (computer) keyboard.

facepalm

Thanks. Next time I'll try actually reading all the text on the page.

Amazing that on a page with such exemplary UX my tired brain still managed to gloss over the massive letters on each key.

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#86

How can one learn to create these visualizations?

I don't want to dissuade you, but you probably should not try to do it the same way he does: completely from scratch using pure JS + WebGL and without any frameworks. He's able to pull it off because he clearly has an incredible depth of knowledge of how it works, but mere mortals like you and me will likely get stuck in the bog of minutiae.

I recommend starting off by playing around with Three.js, which will get you up and running really quickly while still staying pretty grounded in WebGL. [1] You can make blog posts very similar to Ciechanowski using ObservableHQ. [2]

[1] https://threejs.org/docs/index.html#manual/en/introduction/C...

[2] https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/hello-three-js

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#87

This man needs a genius grant, and this is about the 6th time I've thought this. Any one of these pages would be a feat, an achievement to be proud of, but as a collection, it forms one of the greatest educational resources of its type that I have known. These things can give you more intuition about a subject in 45 minutes than a textbook might be able to in 3 months, because it's interesting and not dry. I wish I h…

Is there a way to donate?

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#88
post #87

This man needs a genius grant, and this is about the 6th time I've thought this. Any one of these pages would be a feat, an achievement to be proud of, but as a collection, it forms one of the greatest educational resources of its type that I have known. These things can give you more intuition about a subject in 45 minutes than a textbook might be able to in 3 months, because it's interesting and not dry. I wish I h…

Is there a way to donate?

There's a Patreon link in the top right on his blog
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