- HTML5
- Learning
JOURNEY TO EL YUNQUE is an HTML5 series of interactive educational modeling activities originally developed in Flash.
DESCRIPTION
Organisms in El Yungue seem to be well adapted to hurricanes, but what will happen to the ecosystem if severe hurricanes strike the rain forest more frequently?
Adjust the environmental slider values to produce a graph prediction model of the survival and growth timeline of the organism. An actual model graph is available for comparison.
CONVERSION NOTES
Parameter data and language definitions are loaded from external JSON files for efficiency and extensibility.
Each activity required custom code to calculate the prediction model graph based on the slider widget values.
The curvature precision was lowered by reducing the number of plot points in order to increase the draw performance in HTML5.
The original Flash version supported manual keyboard input of the slider values. This feature was seldom used by users and subsequently dropped from the HTML5 version.
TECHNICAL NOTES
The graph grid and scale numbers are dynamically generated using a handful of parameter settings.
Custom logic was employed to create graph in memory and rendered as single bitmap to increase performance.