Pretty sure thatās all done with javascript, but you could do something similar with Kangaroo.
Each of those items in the heap below reveals a headline when your mouse scrolls over it. Does Kangaroo have this capacity?
Very clever code for sure - my guess is Java too. I didnāt realize each name was a link.
Just think - someone got paid to do this.
The Times has featured some pretty spectacular interactive graphics lately; I posted about a weighted voronoi a few months ago. I guess theyāre not reinventing the wheel when they do these things and much of this functionality must exist as packages somewhere. Iām just not very versed in whatās availableā¦
Much of the NYT interactive stuff is done with d3js by Mike Bostock-
lots of nice ideas for algorithmic data visualization there
Javascript, not Java. They are not the same thing. I love Javascript, itās wonderful!
OK - but it still has all those horrid things like { and [ and ++ and ;
With Iversonās APL you can write the code for the game of life like this:
lifeā{ā1 āµāØ.ā§3 4=+/,ĀÆ1 0 1ā.āĀÆ1 0 1ā.ā½āāµ}
But I wouldnāt do it that way.