I went up a level to http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/ and was thoroughly disappointed to be 403'd. Are there more available?
Animated Factorisation Diagrams
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#32Really nice. What rendering engine or library do you use?
This looks homegrown. The source code [1] is fairly readable. New dots seem to enter the world in the position of the last dot placed but below them. Position and size seem to follow a simple linear movement between frames. I wonder though, why is this done with canvas instead of SVG. Just to cut down on the number of DOM elements? [1] http://www.datapointed.net/media/2012/10/factor_min.js
It's canvas. SVG would still need to insert DOM elements and would probably start displaying performance problems at 5000 elements or so.
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#33I want a clock with that !!!
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#34Can we stop the trend of calling everything "porn"?
I agree. mental masturbation seems more appropriate here.
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#35I like how the div that contains the whole thing is called enchilada.
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#36I went up a level to http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/ and was thoroughly disappointed to be 403'd. Are there more available?
You gave up much too quickly! Going up another level to http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/ offers a variety of creations.
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#38Can we stop the trend of calling everything "porn"?
The porn analogy: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/04/porn-analogy.html
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#39Can we stop the trend of calling everything "porn"?
The porn analogy: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/04/porn-analogy.html
Wow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding.
>Pornography is fake.
True, but that's not why the analogy is used. Pornography is a visual media that conveys some of the pleasure of an act without the viewer actually going through the effort of doing it.
>Pornography's aim is to sexually excite the viewer. Are geeks sexually excited by the eBay data?…
>pleasure comes from many things that are non-sexual such as eating…
>So let's swap 'geek porn' for a 'geek feast'.
But why isn't "feast" defined symmetrically? A feast's aim is to gastronomically excite the user. Are geeks gastronomically excited by the eBay data?
The whole rant is semantic nonsense, defining words in a way that begs the question. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a good rant. I just like my rants to make sense.
The real reason not to use the Porn Analogy is stuffed in the last paragraph: "Many people are uncomfortable with pornography and don't want pornography analogies in professional work."
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#40love this