Author Archives: gblake

Three.js: Simple Collision Detection

I’ve been spending some time trying to work out how to perform basic collision detection with the three.js library. After a combination of Googling, looking at the three.js source code and looking at the sample code on the three.js github … Continue reading

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Three.js: Moving Objects

Thought that I should write another post about my discoveries with the Three.js library as my last post was written sometime before Christmas. Having said that I didn’t make much progress with my Three.js investigations over the Christmas and New … Continue reading

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Pastry

Saturday morning. Now Saturday afternoon. Procrastinating by looking at things on the interwebs. Telling myself that I’m doing research. Came across a post by Keir Whitaker about one of his many projects: The Pastry Box Project. Looks interesting so thought … Continue reading

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Three.js: Moving the Camera

My previous post took a look at the three.js 3D JavaScript engine. I’ve made some simple embellishments since that last post. I’ve worked out how to implement an orthographic camera rather than a PerspectiveCamera and how to move the camera … Continue reading

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The Three.js Library

I’ve been taking a look at the three.js JavaScript library recently. Well, 3D engine I suppose. Essentially it allows the implementation of 3D graphics within the browser using no plug-ins but just JavaScript in a modern browser. When it comes … Continue reading

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What Web App Shall I (attempt to write) Today?

I found an interesting post on Dan Zambonini’s site today all about finding inspiration for web app creation. He also provided a link to theinternetwishlist that may prove useful. Tweet

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SVG-edit

For some time now I’ve wanted to develop a set of classes, or a code library, to allow the drawing of simple, line-based images such as boxes, circles and polygons. I may have finally found a bit of a shortcut. … Continue reading

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Moving from Ruby on Rails to WordPress

WordPress. I’ve installed it a number of times on a local machine running Apache web server. I’ve even installed it at my place of work . Played around a little bit, added some posts, but nothing more really. I gave … Continue reading

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