Water ripple FX with Canvas and Javascript

It’s not new and it was done many, many times with Java Applets: the Water Ripple effect! Yeay! I created one some years ago since I just like to play with it so much. Nowadays we have the HTML5 canvas but also fast javascript engines . I still wanted to experiment with the HTML5 canvas anyway so I decided to port my applet to a canvas.

Check the Water Ripple Effect here!

In this article I will show the effect, explain how the effect works and also how you can reuse the highly configurable javascript classes. You could use it for nice cheesy banner effects or just to impress your site visitors ;). Anyway… lets check it out! Lees “Water ripple FX with Canvas and Javascript” verder

Experimenting with Firefox Audio API

As I am an electronic music creator and a software developer, guess what I like to program ;)… Yes, DSP (Digital Signal Processing) and audio stuff. About two years ago I worked on a DSP platform in Java which became to big of a project to finish.

Recently (april 2010) I found out some guys at Firefox (David HumphreyCorban BrookAl MacDonald, and more) are working on an experimental Audio Data API build on the HTML5 audio tag. This I had to experiment with!
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