Author Archives: Zevan

ArcType (quick and easy math authoring)

By Zevan | July 19, 2018

In 2015 I was writing lots of short recreational math documents. To aid myself in the creation of these, I built ArcType.
ArcType is a minimalistic editor that combines LaTeX, Markdown, HTML/CSS, gnuplot and Octave all in one place. A few months back I took ArcType and finalized it so that others could use it. [...]

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Dynamic Getter

By Zevan | July 18, 2018

Getters in ES6 are usually defined within a class like this:

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class RandomPoint {
get x() {
return Math.random();
}
get y() {
return Math.random();
}
}

In this case we use [...]

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Bringing You Back To Life

By Zevan | July 15, 2018

So… for years I’ve left this blog alone as an archive of all my actionscript stuff. I moved over to zreference.com for a bit and then became so busy that I stopped blogging almost altogether. I still come back here probably once or twice a month to reference something… at least for me, this blog [...]

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HTML5 Canvas Tutorial

By Zevan | July 21, 2012

If you haven’t tried the html5 canvas tag yet, I suggest you give it a try. It falls under the same category as ActionScript’s Graphics and BitmapData classes. It is however much much simpler. One great thing about it is it runs really fast on IOS5. Have a look at some of these demos to [...]

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