http://simonwillison.net/2005-10-05T16:43:36+00:00Simon Willison2005-10-05T16:43:36+00:002005-10-05T16:43:36+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2005/Oct/5/canvas/#atom-tag

<p>Jesse Andrews (of <a href="http://bookburro.org/">Book Burro</a> and <a href="http://userscripts.org/">userscripts.org</a> fame) has built some <a href="http://overstimulate.com/projects/canvas/">awesome canvas demos</a> for users of Safari or Firefox 1.5. He has a bar chart and some animated rectangles, but the real gem is the live chart which polls a server using XMLHttpRequest and updates a line graph with live data. He also has some fun mathematical experiments: a cellular automata generator and a neat exploration of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindenmayer_System">Lindenmayer systems</a> (both <a href="http://overstimulate.com/projects/canvas/lindenmayer.html" title="Canvas Lindenmayer Systems">static</a> and <a href="Interactive Canvas Lindenmayer Systems">interactive</a>). Read more <a href="http://overstimulate.com/articles/2005/10/04/canvas-examples" title="overstimulate: Canvas examples">on his blog</a>.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/canvas">canvas</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/firefox">firefox</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/greasemonkey">greasemonkey</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jesse-andrews">jesse-andrews</a></p>