Tag Archives: JavaScript

How Quickly Can the Matrix Be Solved?

Posted on May 23, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

The solution was finally made to run last week. Today the question is how fast the thing runs. My feel for the answer to this question has to do with the context in which I first asked it. From 1994 … Continue reading →

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Controlling the Animation

Posted on April 28, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

One way to pause a running animation is simply to inhibit the action as shown in the first example below, and based on the following code. As you can see, the window.requestAnimationFrame is still called, but setting the value of … Continue reading →

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More Basic Animation

Posted on April 27, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

Today I continued experimenting with the techniques I started using yesterday. I tried the exercise with filled circles and also after having placed additional objects on the screen. The only drawing modes that came close to supporting what I was … Continue reading →

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Beginnings of an Animation

Posted on April 26, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

I wrote various two- and three-dimensional animations for years and am looking into various aspects of the practice beginning here. I took a course in computer graphics during my senior year in college using Microsoft Pascal on first-generation IBM PCs … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Graph Object, Part 12

Posted on March 14, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

Today I think I’m just going to list all of the TO DO items for the project while taking a moment to see if anything in the basic structure of the existing code might be reworked. Rather than continuously banging … Continue reading →

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Turning the Graph Function Into an Object in JavaScript, Part 11

Posted on March 10, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

Today I continued to dive into smaller and smaller details of how the tick value labels get placed when they are rotated. When it seemed like I was done I set the graph up to continually modify the angle of … Continue reading →

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Turning the Graph Function Into an Object in JavaScript, Part 10

Posted on March 9, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

Today the X-axis tick value labels can be rotated, though I may need to rethink what the angles actually mean. Also, a bit of spacing has been added to let the presentation breathe and some gentler colors were chosen for … Continue reading →

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Turning the Graph Function Into an Object in JavaScript, Part 9

Posted on March 8, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

Today I reorganized things so that the location of the graph axes are calculated automatically. The first image just shows the typical arrangement of items in their normal sizes. The graph and axis labels are larger in this image. In … Continue reading →

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Turning the Graph Function Into an Object in JavaScript, Part 8

Posted on March 7, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

The screenshots below show the graph object with different amounts of text rotation on the y-axis labels and the buffer spaces (shown as green bars) that indicate how the spacing of elements is to be determined from the outside edge … Continue reading →

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Turning the Graph Function Into an Object in JavaScript, Part 7

Posted on March 3, 2016 by R.P. Churchill

Today I implemented the ability to rotate the tick labels on the graph axes. There are a few little tweaks left to implement and describe, but the figures below show how the various offsets work to position each label relative … Continue reading →

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