I've added a new external object called "processing" to Lily today to take advantage of John Resig's wonderful new library Processing.js. Processing.js is a Canvas based implementation of the processing language in Javascript. Unlike my own port of the processing API, John's library includes a parser for near total compatibility with the language. Awesome.
I haven't had much time to play with it yet (John only released it last night), but it's been interesting to compare it with my own SVG based implementation. SVG, being DOM-based, seems to have a ceiling for the number of objects that can be included in an animation- once that ceiling is exceeded performance begins to suffer noticeably. John's Canvas-based version seems to handle much more complex animations without pinning the meter. There are also a couple of features in John's library that take advantage of the new Canvas functionality in Firefox 3. I'm really looking forward to spending more time playing it. Great work John!
You can download the latest Lily beta here - it includes the "processing" external.
Comments (4)
Haha... and I was about to ask you if you've seen it...
Posted by Mushon | May 11, 2008 9:39 AM
Posted on May 11, 2008 09:39
Holy hell, that was fast! Nicely done!
Posted by steve cooley | May 13, 2008 12:41 PM
Posted on May 13, 2008 12:41
quite impressive.
question - should this run resig's demos ok using processing extern?
Posted by nickb | May 15, 2008 1:54 AM
Posted on May 15, 2008 01:54
@nickb - there's still a few bugs, notably anything image-related. I'm hoping to get those cleared up this week.
Posted by Bill Orcutt | May 19, 2008 10:50 AM
Posted on May 19, 2008 10:50