Re:Tearable Cloth Simulation in JavaScript
by MrScruff on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @05:19AM
(#5594087)
One of the nice things about a site like this is being exposed to domains that one is not familiar with. I for one know beans about physics simulations like this, so it is interesting.
I suppose this is true, though the same could have been said for flash before Javascript's recent strides, and I don't recall anyone being particularly excited about similar demos implemented in actionscript.
Probably because:
1) HN wasn't that big (or existing) at that time.
2) Now you can also see the code, it's not in some opaque swt archive.
3) You don't need a proprietary Adobe IDE to code it (yes, you could do without for Flash too with some bizarro third party tools. Talking about the mainstream).
4) Everybody hates flash anyway.
One of the nice things about a site like this is being exposed to domains that one is not familiar with. I for one know beans about physics simulations like this, so it is interesting.
Also, as someone who recalls what Javascript was like 10 or more years ago, yes, I am impressed with what it can do now.