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Kiwipsum - A kiwiana themed dummy text generator, bro. Word Count Tool - Free Tool to Count Number of Words. Word counter! BitTorrent visualization in processing.js. You can use the 's' and 'p' keys to add new seeds and peers to the swarm.

BitTorrent visualization in processing.js

Hitting 'r' will remove one of the seeds or peers at random, but it takes a few seconds before it activates, just like the original. This visualization originally started off at aphid.org but that site doesn't seem to be up anymore. Jeff Atwood updated it to work with more recent versions of Processing (notably the 1.0 release which is theoretically API-stable and compatible with future versions). Once I saw processing.js, I knew that I had to get this working in it. WHOIS. HSL Color Picker - by Brandon Mathis. HSL (Hue, Saturation, Luminosity) allows us to describe meaningful relationships between colors.

HSL Color Picker - by Brandon Mathis

Give this brown color, hsl(36, 73%, 10%), it's clear that if we desaturate 40 steps and lighten 70 steps we get hsl(36, 33%, 80%), a cream color. Look at that in hex, #2C1D07 to #DDCFBB, or in rgb, rgb(44, 29, 7) to rgb(221, 207, 187), and the relationship between colors isn't evident in any meaningful way. Proxy Test.