If you’ve ever seen a Java applet in a web page, chances are it was only there for one purpose: to add a “rippling lake” effect to an image. Why Java never took off we’ll never know! But now, thankfully, we … Continue reading
Motion tracking demo by HTML5 Rocks Last week, Kevin gave us the lowdown on the exciting new getUserMedia device API coming to browsers in the near future, partly thanks to the WebRTC specification (the set of JavaScript APIs for Real Time Communication). I … Continue reading
Plink is a very original idea. It’s an online, collaborative, multiplayer music making toy made by Dinahmoe. It uses Node.js and WebSockets to create an multi-user “chatroom” but instead of entering text to have a chat, the interface generates music! … Continue reading
We explored creative uses of ASCII art a few months ago and again more recently, but we haven’t yet covered its lesser known and even more geeky cousin until now: ANSI art. ANSI art originates from the late ’80s and early ’90s, back … Continue reading
This is a very clever trick (or as they used to say back in the day, a “mash-up”) using Google Maps Street View and WebGL. It uses stereographic projection and WebGL fragment shaders (GLSL) to manipulate the typical panoramic Street View and … Continue reading