Posted by: Sten Anderson on: March 18, 2009
I just posted a little experiment involving scrolling a list of items.
More details can be found on my blog.
Posted by: Sten Anderson on: February 13, 2009
I took a stab at implementing the popular game, “Tower of Hanoi”, in JavaFX.
The object of the game is to move all of the discs from the far left peg to the far right one. A disc can only be placed on top of a disc larger than itself. Click the button to try it [...]
Posted by: Sten Anderson on: February 11, 2009
JavaFX’s 2D graphics and animation APIs are well suited to exploring alternate ways of visualizing data. Below are some experiments with visualizing tags from various sources.
Dome Visualizer
This application provides an alternate way to represent a tag cloud.
The size of the domes reflect the tag frequency and the arcs between the domes represent their correlation (how [...]
Posted by: Sten Anderson on: February 10, 2009
Here’s a JavaFX application that experiments with a different way to represent a family tree. Inspired by Christina Van Vleck, instead of the classic branching tree structure, this application starts with the oldest generation in the center, and lays out each subsequent generation in concentric rings. So similar to an actual tree (that is, the [...]
