Screenshot-JS1k, 1k demo submission [62] - Chromium-1

Interestingly, it does seem that a lot of the demos for the js1k competition are a whole lot more impressive than the 10k competition. Despite that js1k started with no prizes and 10k has a collective $10,000 worth of prizes. Though I do have several entries on both. Anyway, this is the continuation of my old 3d function plotter, but that one doesn’t work anymore because i’m evil and hotlinked the github repo and three.js updated in an api-breaking way.

Anyway, after you vote up http://10k.aneventapart.com/Entry/46 and http://10k.aneventapart.com/Entry/18 you should totally try out my 3d function plotter at http://js1k.com/demo/62

I have no clue what it’s called when ruby automatically runs a function. After not totally understanding def.js and looking at this coffee-script issue from the cappuccino github issues browser. I had a horrible idea.

Function.prototype.valueOf = function(){return this()}

What does it do?

function getValue(){
    return 42
}
if(getValue == 42){
    alert('fortytwo')
}else{
    alert('not fortytwo')
}

Notice notably absent in the if statement are the expected parentheses ‘()’ needed to call them. It gets stranger still.

alert(getValue == 42); //true
alert(getValue() == 42); //true
alert(getValue() === 42); //true
alert(getValue === 42); //false
typeof getValue() //number
typeof getValue //function

var sample1 = getValue;
typeof(sample1) //function

var sample2 = getValue();
typeof(sample2) //number

One advantage is that it makes a super hacky/semi-working implementation of getters that should work universally (maybe). Except that it doesn’t. It’s practically useless.

sin(sqrt(sq(x)+sq(y)))/sqrt(sq(x)+sq(y))

http://antimatter15.com/misc/f(x).html?sin(sqrt(sq(x)+sq(y)))/5.html?sin(sqrt(sq(x)+sq(y)))/5 )

http://antimatter15.com/misc/f(x).html?sin(sqrt(sq(x)+sq(y)))/sqrt(sq(x)+sq(y)).html?sin(sqrt(sq(x)+sq(y)))/sqrt(sq(x)+sq(y)) )

I think function plotters are cool, and since 3d is all the hype nowadays, why not make a 3d function plotter? I like how WolframAlpha does it quite nicely, but it doesn’t allow panning/moving of the camera. Just as a disclaimer, I made this because it’s cool, not because I spent lots of time on it, on the contrary, it’s taken from the three.js 3D Canvas library floor demo with a 3 line change to make it pull a function from the URL.

The original vX function was 337b. Now, it’s been reduced down to 293 bytes, while adding a new feature (callback is now optional).

Apparently, the above stuff doesn’t work (Wordpress?)

It’s really quite amazing. The big things that reduced size were using lots of condititional things, really obfuscated unreadable stuff, and using !0 instead of true, and !1 instead of false.

If you want to use it, try building your own copy from.

http://vxjs.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/build.htm

The usage has signifigantly changed though, there, everything’s namespaced under an underscore, so it’s _.X(“url”)

For one of my projects, I needed a really simple, lightweight one. It’s super lightweight. I mean really. really lightweight. Only 337 bytes (though 1 kilobyte of random crap in front of it would make it 1337 bytes). Most libraries are over 60kb! If you’re using it only for ajax. You’re using 180 TIMES what you really need.

This one can do GET/POST requests with a callback

/*vX Ajax Function. (C) Antimatter15 2008*/
function vX(u,f,p){var x=(window.ActiveXObject)?new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"):new XMLHttpRequest();
x.open(p?"POST":"GET",u,true);if(p) x.setRequestHeader("Content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
x.onreadystatechange=function(){if(x.readyState==4&&x.status==200) f(x.responseText)};x.send(p)}

It takes 3 parameters. the URL, the Callback function, and the post parameters (optional).

vX(AJAX URL, CALLBACK FUNCTION[, POST PARAMETERS]);

Note that here the callback is required, not optional, though it could probably be made to do that by changing f?f(x.responseText):x.

To Use:

GET:

vX("ajax.php?you=suck&howmuch=alot", function(responsetext){alert(responsetext)})

POST:

vX("ajax.php", function(responsetext){alert(responsetext)}, "you=suck&howmuch=alot")

That’s it. In case your wondering what the name is, I wanted somethign that was short so it was lightweight. I didnt want it to be single letter because single-letter names are likely to collide with other libraries. Also because “V” and “X” are two widely overused characters anyway. Another reason might be that you dont know what version it is :P