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Re:Show HN: Terra, a JS framework for cellular automata and ... by kordless on Saturday August 23, 2014 @06:41PM (#8217082)
It would be awesome if the 'examples' actually showed you how to get it going yourself. I don't see any sample HTML anywhere, and your main page's JavaScript is compressed.
Re:Show HN: Terra, a JS framework for cellular automata and ... by rileyjshaw on Saturday August 23, 2014 @07:19PM (#8217155)
Good point! I just added a few lines to each to make them complete; if you include terra before running each example they should work now. Is this better?
Re:Show HN: Terra, a JS framework for cellular automata and ... by kordless on Monday August 25, 2014 @12:52PM (#8222586)
I opened a ticket if you are so inclined. The problem defined is that there isn't a clear method for getting this running in a quick webpage hackup way. It's JavaScript, so it should just 'work' when I cut and paste, as long as I'm including a min file somewhere.

There appear to be a good number of dependencies in the terra.js file, which isn't explained on the page. I see something called lowdash and seedrandom in there, both of which I have never seen before and have no clue how to install. I simply want to cut and paste the examples as they are shown and get something working. I don't want to run a bunch of build processes for installing a bunch of third party libraries on my machine when all I want is to include it on a single page in my project!

Anyway, it looks really cool. Wish I could use it.

Re:Show HN: Terra, a JS framework for cellular automata and ... by rileyjshaw on Monday August 25, 2014 @01:42PM (#8222878)
Sorry @kordless! That was just me being dumb and forgetting to push bugfixes. It should "just work" now :)