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Comment by ljhsiung | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone know how he creates these animations? I like the representation and would like to create them as well.

Also interested. Looks like a lot of it is JS code written by hand. This is certainly readable code: https://ciechanow.ski/js/navarch.js

First time I've ever seen JS blocks statements in the wild; I wonder if the author is coming from a language where that's common.

>JS blocks statements

What are those?

    { // Start of block statement.
      const foo = "a" + 2; // Only available inside block statement.
      console.log(foo); // "a2"
    } // End of block statement.
    console.log(foo); // Uncaught ReferenceError: foo is not defined

Expanding on that question, does anyone know of a place where work like this gets discussed? I was unaware of his stuff, which is indeed wonderful, and if there is a way to meet with others who are interested in this kind of thing, and in doing it for ourselves, I'd sure like to be there.

https://news.ycombinator.com is pretty great for that specific area :)

And:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Naval%20Architecture&type=stor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski

It looks like raw HTML5 canvas with some WebGL (2D): https://ciechanow.ski/js/navarch.js with some helper functions in https://ciechanow.ski/js/base.js

I had the same question. (Putting this here so that I can come back later.)

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