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Snow in canvas land

Other people's code is awful, and your own code from months previous counts as someone else's. With this and the festive spirit in mind, I dug up a canvas snow demo I made two years ago to see how bad my code really was.

Turns out the performance landscape has changed quite a bit, but after applying a couple of workarounds, best practices, and memory management, I got the demo running smoother than it ever did.

Ugh, I can't believe I just wrote "performance landscape". Anyway...

How does the demo work?

Saturate

  // method used by requirejs to decide which modules to include
  // since we want to be able to package a bunch of modules in both 
  // public internet area as well as in edit mode
  var includeModulesByFolder = function(folder, baseIncludes){
    var fs = require('fs'),
        glob = require('glob'),
        include = [],
        baseIncludes = typeof baseIncludes !== 'undefined' ? baseIncludes : [];

    glob.sync( folder + '/**/*.js', { dot: false }).forEach(function(filename) {