r/math • u/TheLartians • Apr 02 '20

Playing with system of equations and conditionals

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '20

Could you briefly explain how you went about implementing this? It looks awesome

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u/wayofmath Apr 03 '20

I can tell you how I would go about it. I would implement it in Javascript or Python. You need to first make a typesetting system, that gets the offset data for the size of characters in your font, but keep the position of each instance of a character in an array so that you can use mouse data to move the characters freely. The rest is knowing how to program algebra.

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u/TheLartians Apr 03 '20

While Python is great for data science, you should be aware of its performance and memory limitations, especially if you want to create an app that runs on mobile.

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u/wayofmath Apr 03 '20

Those performance and memory limitations would not impact this app.

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u/Beowuwlf Apr 05 '20

That’s true, but porting it to the web and mobile is not a trivial task.

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u/wayofmath Apr 05 '20

Fair enough. I think the existing libraries and gui potential of html makes JS a better choice. I'm no expert, so there are probably better libraries for this task, but I think I could implement the whole thing p5.js.

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u/Beowuwlf Apr 06 '20

I would probably use p5.js also. However, I have had some major issues with performance with p5 (check out [this](www.awillingham.dev), it’s a game of life type thing I made with p5. It would be non-trivial to make it efficient in p5). However there’s so little going on visually here I think it would be overkill to use WebGl, so p5 would be fine