The Story of the Teapot in DHTML.

The article discusses the potential use of programming languages and programmable systems to accomplish tasks outside of their original applications, focusing on the rendering of a teapot with the HTML and CSS programming languages as of March 2013. According to the article, the work of the web deve...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 56; no. 3; pp. 50 - 56
Autores principales:	BECKMAN, BRIAN, MEIJER, ERIK
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Mar2013
Materias:	Rendering (Computer graphics) Teapots Programming languages HTML (Document markup language) Cascading style sheets JavaScript programming language
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Sumario:	The article discusses the potential use of programming languages and programmable systems to accomplish tasks outside of their original applications, focusing on the rendering of a teapot with the HTML and CSS programming languages as of March 2013. According to the article, the work of the web developer Jeff Lau with logarithmic, quadratic, and linear performance models enables the creation of the rendering. Topics include the process of creating arbitrary triangles and polygons, texture mapping, and the JavaScript language.