jsTagCloud - JS canvas 3D tag cloud

jsTagCloud is a tag cloud plugin for jQuery. It uses the canvas element to render a 3d cloud that can be rotated with the mouse. It's made as a proof of concept, but it would be great if this someday evolved into a Wordpress plugin. So far i've only been able to test it in these browsers:

  • Firefox/3.0.10 - Ubuntu 9.04 x64
  • yes, only one

The tags in the demo is from this page and they should be clickable as well. The configuration of the plugin should be pretty obvious if you take a look at the source of demo.html.

Features

  • It's made as a jQuery plugin.
  • Navigate the 3d cloud with the mouse pointer
  • Clickable links
  • I just wanted more than 3 items on my feature list :)

Download and demo

The source can be found at:
https://projektserver.se/svn/tiny/javascript/jsTagCloud/
And a demo can be found at:
http://slackers.se/resources/demo/jsTagCloud/demo.html

FAQ

q: Why is the text size jumping?
a: Because i couldn't find any way to scale strings between integer font sizes
q: Can the tags be ordered by the number of items using them, just like in the cloud to the right?
a: No, everything is placed on a unit sphere with the help of our friendly PRN-generator.
q: The selection seems to be off, what's up with that?
a: Yes, sometimes the selection is a bit off. Don't really know why right now.

8 comments:

mpapis 23 May, 2009 12:29  

Why this cloud is so slow, it has eaten both cores of my dual core CPU and still was very slow, almost 1pixel per second.

erik 23 May, 2009 13:03  

Unfortunately I haven't had the time to test this on any other system than my own. But on my machine it takes almost 0% CPU. What browser are you using?

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Polski Sklep 29 June, 2009 18:27  

I have got the very same issue. Both cores of my CPU are 100% used :(

mpapis 30 June, 2009 16:33  

I use Firefox 3.0.11 on Linux openSuSE 11.0

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