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MathBox 2: PowerPoint Must Die
- robinhoodexe 11y agoI'll be honest and admit, that I didn't understand most of the stuff, but damn that website is gorgeous.
- ionforce 11y agoGold star for honesty.
- anc84 11y agoA silly title for a great article about presentation of Math visualisations.
- fieryeagle 11y agoMind-blowing stuff. Imagine if he folds this into Prezi...
- SixSigma 11y agoWe're told at Uni : "You can use Presi if you like, but you'd better be ready for having no internet"
- pidg 11y agoI once had to help out a struggling interviewee whose Prezi had failed because his laptop wifi wasn't working. Talk about poor choices.
- dr_zoidberg 11y agoI'm pretty sure you can download a Prezi presentation. It's ugly (upwards to 200mb for something simple), but it can be done. Or at least could, I really don't like it, but a friend of mine uses it and he always downloads the presentations.
- fieryeagle 11y agoTell them about the wonders of tethered phones or whispering quietly Internet dongles.
- SixSigma 11y agoThat's not going to work on the University computers attached to the projectors. In addition, relying on a mobile phone connection is even more risky.
- est 11y agoWarning: Too many active WebGL contexts. Oldest context will be lost. Safari 8.0.5 on my 13' r-mbp
- jacobolus 11y agoNote: that’s a joke, it’s a static image. http://acko.net/files/mathbox2/too-many-webgls.png http://acko.net/files/mathbox2/too-many-webgls.png
- danmaz74 11y agoNot a quick read, but very interesting and with impressive live demos. EDIT: I really wanted to give a star to the source code, but it's not on github - it's on gitgud [1]. Honestly, for your private projects, use whatever you want, but if you have an open source one and you want discoverability and stars, use github. [1] https://gitgud.io/unconed/mathbox https://gitgud.io/unconed/mathbox
- anc84 11y agoYou can add stars at gitgud too.
- danmaz74 11y agoYes I can. I can register, give a star, and it won't make a difference. You can like this or not, but it's how it works when network effect is at work.
- anc84 11y agoThe star at Github won't either. I highly dislike centralisation, especially if it is centralisation on proprietary services. The more the merrier, people should feel comfortable using different sites and not chastise the underdogs.
- danmaz74 11y agoIn an ideal world, I could agree with you. But in the reality of things, having a central repository with a voting system that is significant and trustable enough is very important - for example, when you need to choose between apparently similar libraries. And a star on Github - rather, a good number of stars - does count much more than any number of stars on any other service in the programming community. I say this not because I have a particular love for Github - I also use Gitlab for some projects, and it's very good - but just because it's the way it is.
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- kriro 11y agoPretty amazing and some fun writing, too. Got a good chuckle out of this heading (part 2) "I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-React" :D
- bsenftner 11y agoI can't believe Steven Wittens istn't techo-famous, on geek talk shows and guest star on Dr. Who or something.
- lectrick 11y agoI scrolled past the top. I got "Achievement Unlocked: DAT PARALLAX" and got to rotate the figure in 3D. A++++ would browse to again LOL
- Rexxar 11y agoThere are apparently seven other achievements (there are 8 place for badges in the "parameter" menu). I have "Dat parallax" and "There is no spoon".
- emehrkay 11y agoHis How to Fold a Julia Fractal (http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/ http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/) is an example of someone who understands how to teach a topic, teaching a topic. And to his point, the visual and interactive pieces definitely help with regard to learning. I believe that textbooks, based on html/epub, with this type of interactions would help with education.
- ksk 11y agoThe irony of someone interested in the demoscene pushing CPU-cycle wasting technologies like WebGL and JS..
- landongn 11y agoit feels a little silly to say this out loud, but I'm convinced that what Steven Wittens is doing on the web is some of the most advanced and incredible stuff I've seen since the original chrome experiments came out. Every time I read something on acko.net I am flush with both envy and wonder at how someone can command a browser with that kind of deftness.