Monday 12 January 2009

Funny Bees



Many thanks to all of you who sent me images of flies for my demo. In the end I coded a bumble-bee myself - as I wanted to have the program self contained. A bee is made out of 6 Ellipses, 5 Circles and a small triangle (for the 'stinger').
They look nowhere near as good as your PNG and GIFs but they do animate and they make me laugh!



Check out the full screen version at www.javaimage.co.uk/animatedflowersandbees.html








4 comments:

lazydog said...

You've been a busy bee!
Looks great... how about some pollen dust falling off the bees as they fly around?

b e n

John Wilson said...

Yeah Ok! I'll save that one for your 'Demi-Gods' book. How's Mona getting on? - Please put up some images!

Antony said...

That is pure genius! How'd you embed the applet in the blog page?

John Wilson said...

Hi Antony, the trick is to use FRAMES (iframe tag) - check out
http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_iframe.asp for more info.

You need to put your Java Applet(PApplet) on another Webserver which you can upload Java Applets to.

I pay £9.00 a month for my own Virtual Linux box Web server - but you could easily use a free service like www.openprocessing.org if you want to show of PApplets. (FYI PApplet is a 'Processing Applet')