Screenshot of Incendium for HTML5
I have recently developed a program in Java for creating fractal animations, which I decided to call Incendium. I like Java, it’s a really robust language, but it has its drawbacks. Java applets are, due to security restrictions, not often allowed in web browsers. Chrome, most notably, has recently decided to out-phase NPAPI support, thus effectively removing support for Java by late 2015. Java applets are also notoriously clunky and ugly to use (they don’t have that Web 2.0 vibe). Therefore, I decided to completely rewrite the Incendium engine in JavaScript, and make a GUI using HTML5. You can see the end result at the following link: http://ssodelta.github.io/incendium/
The HTML5 version has some different features than the Java version. Most notably:
- No support for .WEBM export (though it supports screenshots, using Right click > Save image as…)
- No saving/loading configurations.
- Less color customization.
- Fixed polygon degree.
- Can’t write rotation and size_decay as functions of t anymore.
- Is generally slower than the Java version.
- Runs smooth, rather than frame-by-frame (like the Java version did).
- Added tracers.
- Added the possibility to change blending mode.
- Intuitive controls
- Runs in a browser
Regardless of the fact that this version lacks some features, I still think it’s amazing. Hope you’ll enjoy this program as much as I did developing it 🙂
