JS Jup: now, with variable animation speed (Shallow Thoughts)

JS Jup: now, with variable animation speed

I wrote last week about the sorts of programmer compulsions that lead to silly apps like my animated Javascript Jupiter. I got it working well enough and stopped, knowing there were more features that would be easy to add but trying to ignore them.

My mom, immediately upon seeing it, unerringly zeroed in on the biggest missing feature I'd been trying to ignore. "Can you make it go faster or slower?"

I put it off for a while, but of course I had to do it -- so now there are Faster and Slower buttons. It still goes by hour jumps, so the fastest you can go is an hour per millisecond. Fun to watch. Or you can slow it down to 1 hour per 3600000 milliseconds if you want to see it animate in real time. :-)

Tags: programming, astronomy, javascript
[ 11:42 May 31, 2009    More programming | permalink to this entry | ]