Given informal and positive comments about my automatic “mind map” experiments I have decided to write a Java applet demonstrator.
Having no experience of Java Applet writing (or Java for that matter) I have decided to not learn another very similar language and go a lazier route, namely via processing. Ok, it is basically Java, but it removes the irritation of needing to read up all about swing etc. just to draw a line and have a simple update loop.
Tonight I played with traer physics and animation libraries and reckon with some minor tweaks and a bit of networking magic I can get the random arboretum demo to fit my needs.
How the world waits in anticipation…
I’m told Processing is pretty good / easy to pick up. If you wanted to use the same framework without demanding your clients install the JVM, you should look at the Javascript port http://processingjs.org/ (yes, really – JS plus the HTML5 canvas element is surprisingly powerful!)
Anthony, thanks for the tip. I will stay with the original for now (it serves my needs for the moment). Once I have a walking skeleton I will take a peek at this and evaluate it. Ta.
Good weather, Advance Wars, wine and guitar playing are all impacting progress on this…