Automatoon: A HTML5 animation service on GAE written in clojure

http://www.automatoon.com/

by zitterbewegung • 15 years ago

103 26 15 years ago

automatoon.com

hollerith• 15 years ago

Title should say "animation service" or "animation editor", not "automation service".

funcall3• 15 years ago

Very cool indeed.

One minor issue was that the animation seemed to be running even when I switched back to the Draw or Animate tabs, pegging the CPU.

Didn't see any reference to Clojure on the site, reference?

zitterbewegung• 15 years ago

Clojure mailing list post. http://groups.google.com/group/compojure/browse_thread/threa...

funcall3• 15 years ago

Indeed, how did I miss that. Thanks.

rincewind• 15 years ago

I miss the "made with alien technology" badge on this site. Otherwise awesome work, drcode.

Edit: it needs a way to make parts or joints fixed when bending, so I can't turn my train upside down when I rotate a wheel.

drcode9• 15 years ago

Agreed- That enhancement is coming in the next point release. (the one about the train wheels :-)

drcode9• 15 years ago

I'm a founder and the technical lead- feel free to ask me questions!

kumarshantanu• 15 years ago

Roughly how many lines of production Clojure code is this? Is this made only using Clojure?

drcode9• 15 years ago

95% of the code is client-side javascript (i.e. coffeescript)

However, the server-side code is pretty complex for an app like this too (read up on creating a large zip file on App Engine some time) but I write very compact code...

I'm almost embarrassed to say it's 700 lines of code on the server-side :-) since it feels wrong for so few lines of code to do so much.

zaph0d• 15 years ago

Awesome work, Dr. Barski! The site doesn't have your name anywhere, but I figured it was you from the drawing style.

Yet another piece of awesomeness from you (after Land of Lisp).

twfarland• 15 years ago

Great fun. Do you generate any of your javascript from clojure, or write it directly?

drcode9• 15 years ago

I wrote it all as coffee script- Doing translation ads another layer of complexity I wanted to avoid this time.

andresmh3• 15 years ago

I'm one of the people behind Scratch <http://scratch.mit.edu>; and I can tell you that Automatoon is seriously cool. I can already see a lot of our users would like your tool. Kudos to you for empowering amateur users!

drcode9• 15 years ago

yeah, definitely kindrid spirts, app-wise! Thanks for the kind words on automatoon!

funcall3• 15 years ago

Dr. Barski, you just blew the mind of my four year old son. I wish I'd made a video recording of his reaction. Automatoon is seriously cool.

Tichy• 15 years ago

Too bad that the video is in Flash.

drcode9• 15 years ago

You're right, youtube supports HTML5 video, doesn't it? I'll have to switch over the player so that people don't think the references to flash in the source are from my animation :-)

tluyben2• 15 years ago

very nice! compliments!

tolmasky• 15 years ago

I have an Apple 27 inch cinema display, and with my browser window more or less full screen the animations seem pretty broken (they were fine after I made my browser window smaller and refreshed) -> http://imgur.com/zdrYk

Also, if it helps: running Safari 5.0.5

Automatoon: A HTML5 animation service on GAE written in clojure

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