Sorting strings with JS (properly)
It seems like such a basic task – how to sort a list of strings alphabetically. The easiest way, and what you’d probably stumble across first, is a simple sort function:
September 22, 2017
Using ES6 template strings to generate unique strings
The following technique is something that I found template strings in ES6 to be quite useful for. I needed to generate XML chunks (as a string) where each node had a unique ID every time the XML was generated. Most examples of template strings I see around the web just use simple variables inside template […]
September 13, 2016
Using Cardboard Camera and A-Frame to create a simple WebVR scene
I have been playing around with VR a bit lately after getting a new Android phone (Nexus 6P), and I thought I’d share a simple experiment I did using Google’s Cardboard Camera app, and the WebVR library A-Frame. The result of this will be a simple WebVR scene that displays the photo captured from Cardboard […]
February 5, 2016
Paint stencilling with HTML5 canvas
I have recently been playing around with re-writing my Spray paint stencils in Flash using JavaScript and HTML5’s canvas element. One thing I discovered is that since SVGs are natively supported in browsers I can have stencils scaled to any size and remain crisp, unlike the Flash version which used transparent PNGs. I have implemented […]
October 28, 2015
Inspiring Inspiration #16
A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design.
October 20, 2015
Automatic typography substitution
After reading the series of Death to Typewriters articles on Meduim, I decided to have a go at implementing their automatic character substition rules in JavaScript. Following the guide provided at Death to Typewriters: Automatic replacement and clean-up, I created a simple function that can be called as you type, or when text is pasted, […]
March 4, 2015
New website for Nemen Visual
I have just launched a new website for Nemen Visual. The new site is a big departure from the old site which I created over 3 years ago. I took the redesign as an opportunity to explore some new techniques and modernise it a bit.
March 2, 2015
Recreating the Apple Watch UI using a hexagonal grid
Building on the hexagonal grid from earlier, I have added a little JavaScript and have created an effect similar to the Apple Watch home screen UI. Below is a video of it in action, I am using IE11 (metro version) on a Surface Pro 2 which I found to be the most performant for this […]
February 28, 2015
Triggering a ‘finish’ event on an external video with Storyline HTML5
If you have at some point needed to use Articulate Storyline – you have probably come to a point where you want to murder everyone around you (not literally of course!) due to its ridiculous, quirky limitations. More often than not I find myself hacking the published code to make things works how I want. […]
February 18, 2015
CSS Diamond grid
Following on from the last post I decided to play a bit more with the hexagonal grid and created a diamond grid. It works similar to the last grid except it uses squares rotated 45 degrees, so it is basically a regular grid tipped on its side with even-odd number alternating rows. Here is a […]
February 14, 2015
CSS Hexagonal packed grid
Most grids are square packed – that is each cell is stacked like a block which is great, but if you are after something slightly different maybe you should try a hexagonally packed grid. I will show you how to create a hexagonally packed grid using only CSS. But first, here is the difference between […]
February 13, 2015
Inspiring Inspiration #15
A collection of cool video, motion graphics and interface design.
February 4, 2015