Month: October 2011

This article is the third in a series in which I implement the same app in several different graphical programming environments. Today’s contender: JavaScript & canvas.

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This article is the second in a series in which I implement the same app in several different graphical programming environments. Coming up this round: ActionScript.

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This is the first in a series about graphical programming in which I implement the same app in several different graphical programming environments. In this episode, Processing.

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In which I harness the power of public expectation to motivate myself to write more software posts, by loudly committing to write a series of three.

A graphics programming environment is a language or library suitable for drawing pretty patterns. In this series I’m interested in raster drawing environments, in which you can directly manipulate pixels rather than using higher level constructs like HTML or SVG. I intend to implement the same app in several different environments and compare the results.

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