<applet code = "PoSnake.class" codebase="/journal.aux/" width=140 height=140>

</applet>

except the origin is in the center of the applet. Z (depth into the screen) is

<a href="/photos/teamapple"><IMG SRC="/journal.aux/2001.10.10.appletop.gif" WIDTH=61 HEIGHT=31 border=0 ><br><img src="/journal.aux/2001.10.10.afshane.jpg" width=70 height=70 border=0><img src="/journal.aux/2001.10.10.afjen.jpg" width=70 height=70 border=0><br><img src="/journal.aux/2001.10.10.afcindy.jpg" width=70 height=70 border=0><img src="/journal.aux/2001.10.10.afjohn.jpg" width=70 height=70 border=0><img src="/journal.aux/2001.10.10.afmo.jpg" width=70 height=70 border=0><br><img src="/journal.aux/2001.10.10.afdan.jpg" width=70 height=70 border=0><img src="/journal.aux/2001.10.10.afkirk.jpg" width=70 height=70 border=0></a>

<!-- <applet code="BinClock" codebase="/journal.aux/" width=200 height=20></applet>--><center>

It turns out yesterday's Zombie Simulator was part of a much more interesting project--<a href="http://proce55ing.net/">Processing</a> seems to be a way of simplifying the creation of java applets...so these things will still run in any browser but they won't require quite so much difficult programming. Many of the applets on the front page are quite interesting or beautiful...'Skyline' is especially cool.<br>

[[`Java Applet of the Moment`]]

"Despite decades of research, we have never fully discovered what the Moon is made of," says Manuel Grande at UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, who built the spacecraft's X-ray spectrometer.

<table bgcolor="black" cellpadding=1 cellspacing=0><tr><td><applet archive="/journal.aux/2003.12.20.alienbillhorde.jar" code ="alienbillhorde.class" width=200 height=200 border = 1 border=1></applet></td></tr></table></td><td valign="bottom"><i>--"Alien Bill Horde". (You can make 'em run the other way with the mouse...but you might need a recent <a href="http://java.com">Java plugin</a> installed.) In meetings, sometimes I'd draw a huge swarm of Alien Bills, but the computer is so much better at it...(<a href="/journal.aux/2003.12.20.alienbillhorde.java">source</a>)</i></td></tr></table>

<!--<applet code="balls1" archive="/journal.aux/2004.07.28.balls1.jar" width=300 height=300>

</applet><br>

<!--<applet code="ballwork1" archive="/journal.aux/2004.07.30.ballwork1.jar" width=300 height=300>

</applet>-->

</a> <!-- <applet align="left" code="sketchfish3" archive="/journal.aux/2004.07.30.sketchfish3.jar"

</applet>--><BR>

<table align="left" border=0><tr><td><applet code="gargoyle" archive="/journal.aux/2004.11.05.gargoyle.jar" width=100 height=100 border=1>

</applet></td>

<table align="left" border=0><tr><td><applet code="firebrand" archive="/journal.aux/200.11.08.firebrand.jar" width=150 height=150 border=1>

</applet></td>

<li>Sierpinski triangle applet; or maybe ports of more of my Palm PocketC stuff

<table border=1><tr><td><applet code="writeover" archive="/journal.aux/2005.03.15.boojum.jar"

</applet>

Actually, now that it's a java applet there's more things I could do than with the static images...I already use a "one letter at a time" display, but also theres no reason the image behind couldn't be changing, either some frames of an animation, or just flipping through various images.

Been working on a "art toy" version of that <a href="http://kisrael.com/viewblog.cgi?date=2005.03.17">snark, boojum</a> applet, where text is used as a stencil to see the image behind.

<a href="http://kirk.is/features/old.kstencil/index.cgi">Here's the latest version</a>, currently at version "0.5". The java applet itself (what you click on) is largely complete, except for some work with fonts, but I haven't yet set up the infrastructure to let people upload their own images, so for now they're stuck with Bush waving a little flag. You can change the text though, along with a bunch of other settings.

A few times now I've caught myself saying "Yeah! Go see my java toys! Err...just go to the kisrael.com search page and enter "<applet" and..." which really is a bit too much, so I made a stylish (if I do say so myself) <a href="/features/java">java toy webpage</a> with uniform screenshots and links.

<a href="http://www.lecielestbleu.com/media/pateasonframe.htm">la Pate a Son</a> is a lovely applet for making musical Rube Goldberg-meets-that-old-"Pipe Dreams"-game setups. I think that it is tweaked to make it almost too hard to make ugly sounds, but it's still pretty cool. (Makes me think that I should try to do a Java or other technology port of that old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimTunes">SimTunes game</a>.)

I made this applet to better view the

Move the mouse over the image to shrink it. As it shrinks, the faces seem to swap places! No other image processing is done except the shrinking. Mr. Angry on the right becomes calm, and Mrs. Calm on the left appears angry. It's an amazing illusion, I think the applet makes it a little more fun to play with.

a <a href="http://www.ventrella.com/Alife/Peanut/Animals/JavaPeanut.html">Java applet</a>. You can also generate your own <a href="http://www.ventrella.com/Alife/Peanut/Animals/animals.html">spring-based animal critters</a>, with 'Toon, Spring, and Box rendering. (I couldn't get the <a href="http://www.ventrella.com/Alife/Peanut/Test/test.html">sound version</a> to be much different) All of these other critters pay attention to and are draggable with the mouse...

The site includes a neat little applet letting you scroll over the map detail, and the locations for all the goodies. It's so funny seeing such obsessive geek detail...I was thinking about reviewing this game for <a href="http://www.classicgaming.com/">classicgaming.com</a>, to go along with my review of <a href="http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/crossroads/">Crossroads and Crossroads II</a> but never got beyond making animated GIFs for it...which I dug up here, and added a few more for a fuller set. Amazing what they could do with a 16*16 grid, and 16 colors...

I found this page of <a href="http://www.pathguy.com/chess/ChessVar.htm">Chess Variants</a>, where you can play against a weak computer opponent online (Java applet-- actually following one of the game links seemed to shutdown Firefox once, so beware.) I got the chance to try <a href="http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Kriegspi.htm">Kriegspiel</a>, where you can't see your opponents pieces. The UI could be a bit sharper, but overall it's cool to mess around with.

</applet>

So here's the Java applet I made to help me... you can type your own text.

<applet code="trialphabet" archive="/journal.aux/2007.07.20.trialphabet.jar "

</applet>

<applet code="blockvaders" archive="/journal.aux/2007.09.09.blockvaders.jar"

</applet>

<!-- <applet code="ducks" archive="/journal.aux/2007.09.30.ducks.jar"

</applet><br>--><br>

<applet code="conwayice" archive="/journal.aux/2007.10.20.conwayice.jar"

</applet>

<applet code="sugardum" archive="/journal.aux/2007.12.25.sugardum.jar"

</applet>

<!-- <applet code="phoneme" archive="/features/java/phoneme/phoneme.jar"

</applet>-->

<applet code="tantalus" archive="/features/java/tantalus/tantalus.jar"

</applet>

<applet code="prometheus" archive="/features/java/prometheus/prometheus.jar"

</applet>

<applet code="basho" archive="/m/2008.04.20.basho.jar"

</applet>

<applet code="basho2" archive="/java/basho2/basho2.jar"

</applet>

<applet code="pixiesmash" archive="/java/pixiesmash/pixiesmash.jar"

</applet>

<applet code="kirkjerkfirewerk" archive="/java/kirkjerkfirewerk/kirkjerkfirewerk.jar"

</applet>

<applet code="bumblebeemafia" archive="/java/bumblebeemafia/bumblebeemafia.jar"

</applet>

[[`Applet of the Moment`]]

<applet code="swank" archive="/m/2008.11.16.swank.jar"

</applet>

<div style="background-color:black;padding:1"><applet code="snowno" archive="/java/snowno/snowno.jar"

</applet></div>

<center><applet code="drawblood" archive="/java/drawblood/drawblood.jar"

</applet>

<applet code="rgbwar" archive="/java/rgbwar/rgbwar.jar"

</applet>

<applet code="iso" archive="/java/iso/iso.jar"

</applet>

I am almost sickened by how difficult it is to get a Java applet to talk to a basic Perl upload script to transfer a file.

<center><applet code="markovlove" archive="/java/markovlove/markovlove.jar"

</applet>

<center><applet code="drumdots" archive="/java/drumdots/drumdots.jar,/java/drumdots/jl1.0.jar,/java/drumdots/jsminim.jar,/java/drumdots/minim-spi.jar,/java/drumdots/minim.jar,/java/drumdots/mp3spi1.9.4.jar,/java/drumdots/tritonus_aos.jar,/java/drumdots/tritonus_share.jar,/java/drumdots/core.jar"

</applet>

<center><applet code="joustpong3d" archive="/java/joustpong3d/joustpong3d.jar"

</applet>

<center><applet code="rrr" archive="/java/rrr/rrr.jar,/java/rrr/pphys2d.jar,/java/rrr/core.jar"

</applet>

<center><applet code="dorkicus" archive="/java/dorkicus/dorkicus.jar,/java/dorkicus/pphys2d.jar,/java/dorkicus/core.jar"

</applet>

<center><applet code="moobak" archive="/java/moobak/moobak.jar,/java/moobak/pphys2d.jar,/java/moobak/core.jar"

</applet>

<center><applet code="rocketdorkicus" archive="/java/rocketdorkicus/rocketdorkicus.jar,/java/rocketdorkicus/pphys2d.jar,/java/rocketdorkicus/core.jar"

</applet>

These were 2-10 of banneradmuseum.com's <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050405013323/www.banneradmuseum.com/bestof2000b.html">2000 best of</a>. (#1 was an HP printer butterfly java applet that I can't find a working copy of.)

<center><applet code="aprilamber" archive="/java/aprilamber/aprilamber.jar"

</applet>

<center><applet code="pnok" archive="/java/pnok/pnok.jar,/java/pnok/pphys2d.jar,/java/pnok/core.jar"

</applet>

<center><applet code="monsterball" archive="/java/monsterball/monsterball.jar,/java/monsterball/pphys2d.jar,/java/monsterball/core.jar"

</applet>

<center><applet code="scrib1_amber" archive="/java/scrib1_amber/scrib1_amber.jar"

</applet>

What was so bad about the "applet" tag? It still works in 6 lines while #processing 's 40 lines of "object" is busted on chrome.<br>

<center><applet code="sredavni"

</applet>

One final miniproject based on <a href="http://www.globalgamejam.org/2011/sredavni">sredavni</a> -- we came up with a cute little city generator, and this applet just scrolls it forever.

This applet has a secret though - each piece also has a destroyed version, so if you press the mouse, you see the alternate-reality, post-apocalyptic view of the city.

<!-- <applet code="thermo" archive="/java/thermo/thermo.jar"

</applet>

<a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/31/html5-versus-flash-infographic/">http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/31/html5-versus-flash-infographic/</a> the Flash vs HTML5 really got me thinking. At the very least I need to get offa Processing Applets...

We just got a Roku 2 XD box. (A bit like the AppleTV, for streaming.) It's so wee! And the UI so charmingly sparse- nicer than the PC we had hooked up to the tv for Netflix and Hulu etc.

<applet code="shavefacerace"

</applet>

<applet code="actionfigurefighter"

</applet>

<a href="http://kirkdev.blogspot.com/">http://kirkdev.blogspot.com/</a> on my UI dev blog: EMPOWER EVERYONE - What Google Hangouts, AppleTV, and ITS PDP-6 have in common

On my devblog, I <a href="http://kirkdev.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-elevator-from-movie-her.html">wrote about the cool moving elevator background in the movie "Her"</a>. I included the following GIF to show the idea, as well as a processing applet I made to play with the concept... (mouse over to change the up/down speed)

<a href="http://kirk.is/java">http://kirk.is/java</a> - For the first time in years, maybe, I went through the rigamarole of re-enabling Java applets on my OSX, and I'm kind of impressed by the creativity my old self put into this. I should definitely get to porting some of these, either to html5 (still need to get a good physics library) or maybe Apple Spritekit-- or maybe one of those "JavaVM on IOS" things...

I am about to finish Dan Dennett's "From Bacteria to Bach: The Evolutions of Minds" and it's pretty good (though recapitulating stuff I've heard before from him) but it's a little disconcerting how he writes about Java Applets in the present tense - they were a great model for virtual machines, but it's not clear he knows how much they've slipped into the dustbin of tech history for the most part.

<li><a style="color:red;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67cJLg8kpM">Appletree</a> (Erykah Badu) so stylish

1. "it's insecure". Like with Java applets, for some reason companies just couldn't get their acts together to batten down the hatches? Which is really weird, because it seems like stuff it would be very easy isolate in a virtual sandbox, especially relative to the trend to make javascript do everything. <br>

I just realized he made <a href="http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/palm/noiz.html">Noiz</a>, one of the most impressive games for Palm and Java Applet - it's like a bullet hell shooter version of Qix... <br>

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