A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript

Re:A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript by tychonoff on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @09:51PM (#3073790)

The author shunned mathematics in favor of programming, but this exercise showed why that was a mistake.

Compared to serious mathematics, programming is relatively trivial.

With mathematics, you can do anything in computing.

Without it, you're reduced to this feeble exercise in self-enlightment.

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Re:A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript by jc4p on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @11:20PM (#3074026)

I completely agree with you. This line:

  As humans, however, degrees ranging from 0 to 360 are much easier to read. That’s why you can and should convert between them with this simple formula.

Made be cringe.

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Re:A Quick Look Into The Math Of Animations With JavaScript by ars on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @01:53AM (#3074417)

Radians made no sense to me - until I found out the relationship to PI and then it's a much more natural was of describing angle - especially if you use Tau.

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