Tag Archives: es6

Proxy - (object always defined)

This uses a proxy to make sure all keys/props of an object are always defined.

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let spec = {
  get: (o, key) => {
    return o[key] != null ? o[key] : o[key] = O();
  },
  set: (o, key, v) => {
    o[key] = v;
  }
};
 
let O = () => {
  return new Proxy({}, spec);  
};
 
let dynamic = O();
dynamic.prop.creation = 'is interesting';
dynamic.prop.stuff.not.clear.what.this.could.be.used.for = 123;
 
// log out full structure
let f = (o) => {
  for (let i in o) {
    console.log(o[i]);
    if (typeof o[i] === 'object') f(o[i]);
  }
};
f(dynamic);

Outputs:

Proxy {creation: "is interesting", stuff: Proxy}
is interesting
Proxy {not: Proxy}
Proxy {clear: Proxy}
Proxy {what: Proxy}
Proxy {this: Proxy}
Proxy {could: Proxy}
Proxy {be: Proxy}
Proxy {used: Proxy}
Proxy {for: 123}
123
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Dictionary with ES6 Symbol

Creating a dictionary type object with ES6 Symbols is easy. Yes we have Maps and WeakMaps but this is still interesting for a variety of reasons… Being able to use objects as keys in another object (dictionary) has many great uses…. So how do you use Symbols like this?

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let a = { id: Symbol('key') },
    b = { id: Symbol('key') };
 
let dictionary = {
  [a.id]: 'value by obj a',
  [b.id]: 'value by obj b'
};
 
console.log(dictionary[a.id]);
console.log(dictionary[b.id]);
 
// outputs:
// 'value by obj a'
// 'value by obj b'

By using either object a or object b’s `id` symbol, our dictionary points to another value. This old AS3 snippet is similar:

http://actionsnippet.com/?p=426

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3d Point to 2d Point (Easy Mini 3d Engine)

Many years ago when I had just started programming I found this absolute gem by Andries Odendaal.

modern es6 version

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let rotX = 0, rotY = 0,
    perspective = 500, 
    depth,
    currX, currY;
// learned something like this at Andries Odendaal's www.wireframe.co.za 
function point3d(x, y, z) {
    let cosX = Math.cos(rotX),
        cosY = Math.cos(rotY),
        sinX = Math.sin(rotX),
        sinY = Math.sin(rotY),
        posX, posY, posZ;
 
    posZ = z * cosX - x * sinX,
    posX = z * sinX + x * cosX,
    posY = y * cosY - posZ * sinY,
    posZ = y * sinY + posZ * cosY;
 
    depth = 1 / (posZ / perspective + 1);
    currX = posX * depth;
    currY = posY * depth;
 
    return [ currX, currY, depth ];
}

Here’s is an example of it in action:

I’ve used this code many many times, it’s just easy to throw into any language and instantly get 3d points rendered in 2d. Here is a short video of a Java applet from 2003 called “Catch Env” that made use of it:

Here is the source code for that ^^
http://www.zevanrosser.com/shape2/j/Catchenv.java

You’ll notice in that source, that I nested the equation to allow for local and global transformations. It was around that time that I learned the ins and outs of real 2D and 3D matrix transformation math… Ken Perlin’s classfiles from NYU were a real help when I was learning that stuff. I don’t think this was the exact file I was working with, but it was definitely on his site somewhere.

Before all that, during my junior year in college I created a 3d engine based off Odendaal’s code in Director (Lingo). Here is a video of some of the demos for it:

…and here is a strange screenshot from my personal website at the time:

Just an example of a powerful snippet and a gateway to learning matrix transformation math. When I first really dug in to html5 canvas - before WebGL was supported so widely - having this trick up my sleeve was great. As you can see in the below link, I used it more than a few times back then:

Daily canvas experiments:

http://zreference.com/projects/all-graphics.php

:D

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