Visualisation of parties in the Dáil 1918-2002
Following a suggestion from an Irish blogger called Damien Mulley, Keith of talideon.com has whipped up a visualisation of the parties making up the various Dáils going back to 1918. It’s neat. Check it out here. He writes about it on this blog post here.
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Lovely. Would be nice to see a flash version.
Comment by tim — June 23, 2006 @ 1:58 pm
It’s not done yet either. I’m reworking the charts right now.
I could convert it to Flash and I have a copy of it lying around here somewhere, but I’d need to learn Flash first. Java, on the other hand, I already know. Anyway, the only real difference in the end would be that it’d have nicer anti-aliasing on the text.
Comment by Keith — June 23, 2006 @ 2:10 pm
Nice one Keith. Hope to see your finished version soon! Flash AS2.0 looks alot like Java so don’t be too afraid of it! Here’s a good idea of what you might expect flash to do for you.
Comment by tim — June 23, 2006 @ 6:11 pm
Well, I already know JS, and AS is based on JS anyway. Fear isn’t exactly something that strikes me when it comes to programming languages: I taught myself C++ from Stroustrup before I went to college and have written my own wireless networking stack. Now that’s hardcore.
What annoys me about Flash, at least the previous times I’ve thought I’d sit down and learn it, is that the interface doesn’t appear very programmer friendly, and frustratingly so. I’d love if, like Eclipse, it was possible to construct various perspectives specific to the task you’re undertaking at the time and switch between them rapidly.
But there’s not really anything that can be done with Flash that can’t be done with Java, and after so many years of coding Java, I’m familiar enough with the requisite parts AWT, Swing, and Java2D to be able to do it all as fast in Java as I would in Flash. It’s quite possible to do everything that the Google Finance applet does in Java and I’m happy enough with it.
I really can’t see any good reason to port it over beside the fact that Flash’s font rendering looks better, though that’ll change when Java 1.6 comes out shortly and it’ll support proper subpixel antialiasing.
Comment by Keith — June 23, 2006 @ 8:08 pm