The Butterfly Applet
In this applet, you will launch butterflies with a mouse click, control their Number, Direction and Speed of flight. The butterflies are represented by yellow dots and not animated butterfly images. Tinker around for a few seconds and you will get the idea
The applet is loading at the bottom of this page. Here are a few tips to maximize your enjoyment:
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Use Netscape Communicator 4.x or Microsoft IE 4.x for best results. However, this applet does not require Java 1.1 to run. |
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Set the screen resolution to 1024 | 768. |
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Reduce the Number of butterflies and/or increase their Speed if you use a slower computer. |
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Set Show Path to ON if you want your butterflies to leave trails as they fly. |
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Use the Clean Up button to clean up the butterfly trails. Also bang this button to stop active butterflies. |
And here are a few restrictions:
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If you launch butterflies and leave the page, you wont find them flying when you return. |
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If you bring up an another window right in front of the applet window, the active butterflies will stop flying. |
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On SGI workstations running Netscape, the butterflies flicker a lot. I have not been able to solve this problem so far. |
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Best viewed in Netscape 4.x or IE 4.x @
1024 | 768 | 16-bit colors
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