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I make HTML5 Javascript experiments that are pretty alright

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They require a bit of investment but ultimately are rad and worth some internet minutes

Check the latest one out (preferably in Chrome) here:

http://clp.me/goodbye.php

Here's what some random internet dude said about a previous work of mine -

Chris Remo

@chrisremo

@rwcohn Pretty cool! I like that it revolves in time.

Let me know how it goes!

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Whoa nice! I may have to pick your mind sometime soon about <canvas> and whatnot as I am gloriously ignorant about its potential and applications. Like: is it possible to have DOM elements inside the canvas, or is it all javascript all the time? Can you recommend some sort of primer/crash course site?

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Whoa nice! I may have to pick your mind sometime soon about <canvas> and whatnot as I am gloriously ignorant about its potential and applications. Like: is it possible to have DOM elements inside the canvas, or is it all javascript all the time? Can you recommend some sort of primer/crash course site?

No idea about XML man, I never use it

The best crash course is just to spend a few late nights/weekends/years making experiments

Either that or take one of the things that I've made and just dissect it (the source code is all there)

All you need is Google Chrome and Notepad

Also, bonus:

http://clp.me/kingdom.html

Oh, double also - did you make that parallax comic in your sig?

If it is, this is a crazy coincidence that you wouldn't believe

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Yup. Hobo Lobo is me. What about the crazy coincidence wouldn't I believe?

I was going to wrap up the first part of the story in the parallaxer and then build a different platform for the second part. I have been thinking about using canvases for things but I am not sure if they would solve my problems or just introduce new ones. Will have to experiment I guess. Thanks.

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Yup. Hobo Lobo is me. What about the crazy coincidence wouldn't I believe?

I was going to wrap up the first part of the story in the parallaxer and then build a different platform for the second part. I have been thinking about using canvases for things but I am not sure if they would solve my problems or just introduce new ones. Will have to experiment I guess. Thanks.

So I'm a big fan of this dude's stuff:

http://www.reddit.com/user/Leachz/submitted/ (drug themes/mature content)

He's also a fan of the stuff that I make

We're working together to create some sort of interactive HTML5 story comic content for a new website

The thing that I created this thread about (goodbye.php) is going to be modified and used as the homepage of said site

Where you come in is the fact that the big jumping off point we originally shared was this crazy idea of a parallax comic

I had no idea where I'd originally seen that concept, but I guess it was in your signature right here on the Idle Thumbs forums!

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I was going to wrap up the first part of the story in the parallaxer and then build a different platform for the second part. I have been thinking about using canvases for things but I am not sure if they would solve my problems or just introduce new ones. Will have to experiment I guess. Thanks.

Canvas is 100% JS driven and has no DOM. You draw pixels to it. Not dom elements. If you want to have a dom to manipulate you could take a look at SVG, though.

Sadly, I don't know of any good tutorial links yet, but you might want to take a look at http://creativejs.com/

Spotpilgrim: I really like the song on Goodbye! Did you use some kind of JS framework?

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Canvas is 100% JS driven and has no DOM. You draw pixels to it. Not dom elements. If you want to have a dom to manipulate you could take a look at SVG, though.

Sadly, I don't know of any good tutorial links yet, but you might want to take a look at http://creativejs.com/

Spotpilgrim: I really like the song on Goodbye! Did you use some kind of JS framework?

Glad you like the music, sadly I did not make it

I don't use frameworks really, you don't really need them with Canvas

That code is a combination of some old projects (linked above), converted C# salvage and a bit of scrappy new stuff (all mine)

And there's also a bit of HSL stuff that I snatched from a Google search (linked in the header - it's just an implementation of well-understood colour theory)

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This is awesome, I make music myself and have always been thinking about how easy it would be to add javascript visualizations. I did a quick experiment with livestreaming myself playing around in Ableton Live and having visualizations in a window. No fancy vis just cycled animated gifs pulled from Steve Gaynor's tumblr (http://rekall.tumblr.com/) which is trippy.

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This is awesome, I make music myself and have always been thinking about how easy it would be to add javascript visualizations. I did a quick experiment with livestreaming myself playing around in Ableton Live and having visualizations in a window. No fancy vis just cycled animated gifs pulled from Steve Gaynor's tumblr (http://rekall.tumblr.com/) which is trippy.

Glad you like it man

HTML5 websockets also opens up a whole new avenue of interactivity

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So cool. I want to learn processing some day just to build this kind of stuff, or like Robert Hodgin's experiments.

Also whoa I am listening to that video of Robert Hodgin and he sounds scarily like Jeff Goldblum at points. Like, I'll forget that he isn't Goldblum.

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I enjoyed this very much, although I feel like something was done to my brain without my permission...

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