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I love stuff like this. Im hearing the raphaelJS name a lot so it's nice to see what can be done with it. I just assumed the library was for drawing charts? But I guess it's more for vectors.

Anyway - what I'm really looking forward to is realtime multiplayer / multiuser versions of all these great demos. Just think of the viral/network effect. I'm sure it's all quite possible now that we have node.js?

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Raphael is for generating SVG, so you can draw anything with it. Oh, and multiplayer browser games were possible long before Node.js appeared, there's no new magic there.

OK so this was done with vector graphics <forehead slap>.

I was thinking they were doing some sort of bitmap-grid skewing & stretching, but it seemed way too precise & neat.

Thank you for stating the (what probably should have been) obvious ;)

You're welcome, but I made a similar mistake too until I noticed Raphael being mentioned in the comments ;-)

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