Dave Johnson on open web technologies, social software and software development https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/feed/entries/atom 2026-04-07T09:28:33+00:00 Apache Roller https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/entry/mandelbrot-viewer-typescript-canvas Dave Johnson 2016-01-11T10:00:00+00:00 2018-02-16T12:42:44+00:00 <p> <a href="https://github.com/snoopdave/mbcanvas">MbCanvas</a> is a fun project that I did in 2015: a simple <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set">Mandelbrot Set</a> viewer written in <a href="http://www.typescriptlang.org/Tutorial">Typescript</a> and using the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/">HTML5 Canvas</a>. I did the project to learn more about Typescript and the HTML5 Canvas and I must say, Typescript very nice -- so much easier to read and write than plain old JavaScript, at least for me.</p> <p>Here&#39;s an example image from the viewer.</p> <p><img src="https://rollerweblogger.org/roller/mediaresource/d82c09d5-2037-42aa-9b73-6927a754fa36" alt="mandelbrot set image"></p> <p>The project is fairly easy to build if you&#39;ve got Node and NPM installed, or you can play around with it here: <a href="http://rollerweblogger.org/mbcanvas">mbcanvas - Mandelbrot viewer in TypeScript</a></p>