The Unit Circle
December 15, 2018, 5:14 pm
I got a little bit obsessed with trigonometry this last year, and over the last week, I really tried to understand as much of it as I can, and how it is used in Javascript. I made a thing. There was a Reddit post about a unit circle gif, and I said to myself. I can make that, but better and interactive. And so I tried to. Here is an embedded version of my Unit Circle.
This thing is a kind of big deal to me, because it represents a lot of big things. One thing is my general shift over the last year toward actually documenting the things I make. I've been working hard on a lot of projects, including my drawtools and apptools libraries. I've been learning a lot about the latest ECMAScript in order to push my own knowledge and really be able to make these tools be great and useful.
And I'm kind of really proud of myself. People look at my art and they either like it or they don't. But people see the things I code and it feels like they think "I wish I understood this" Because I must be so excited about it. And they aren't. My code is like a high schooler's poetry. No one cares. I'm writing a pity party right now. That's what this is. I'm having a party just for me, and the topic is poor me. But it's what I feel sometimes.
I just have to say for myself that I'm proud of me. And if you're proud of me, I hope that you'll share some of the dumb things that I make sometimes.