Ventelations: November 2010

The World According to the United States of America | Alphadesigner Blog

I love where I live. I love the freedom and opportunities I have. But I don't like the closed mindedness that surrounds me on a daily basis.

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Birds, still angry

via kottke.org

very cool. "Angry Birds" is one of the many reasons I want a smart phone.

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Nonscience / Periodic Table of the Elements (Revised) // Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives

via spellingmistakescostlives.com

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Scooby-Doo, Reloaded

via laughingsquid.com

This version would've meddled without any of the bullsh*t. Just staright up search and destroy.

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Infographic: 28 odd facts about the human body | MNN - Mother Nature Network

via mnn.com

Interesting facts

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Train to run long distance

via i.imgur.com

Highly doubt I'll ever do this, but kinda cool

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BitTorrent visualization in processing.js

BitTorrent!

You can use the 's' and 'p' keys to add new seeds and peers to the swarm. Hitting 'r' will remove one of the seeds or peers at random, but it takes a few seconds before it activates, just like the original.

This visualization originally started off at aphid.org but that site doesn't seem to be up anymore. Jeff Atwood updated it to work with more recent versions of Processing (notably the 1.0 release which is theoretically API-stable and compatible with future versions). Once I saw processing.js, I knew that I had to get this working in it.

Works in pretty much any modern browser, including IE9 (but not previous versions of IE, because they don't have support for the <canvas> tag).

Changes, if you're curious:

processing.js was missing ArrayList.contains() so I implemented it

processing.js didn't implement screenX() or screenY() so I had to calculate things manually with cos() and sin()