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Another voice for a machine made to beg for mercy. Cool tech demo but my browser and system pretty much went to sleep running it. Nifty preview about 2-3 year
by 51Cards 16y ago
Another voice for a machine made to beg for mercy. Cool tech demo but my browser and system pretty much went to sleep running it. Nifty preview about 2-3 years too soon though this can be said for a lot of the HTML5 / Canvas demos coming out right now.
This will date me but it's a familiar cycle. Back in the 80's there were crews coming up with graphics demos and pushing the tech to its limits. Your 286/386 would melt down but it was cool to 'fly' through a pseudo 3D 256 colour tunnel. It's deja vu for me... different time, different tech, same desire to push it faster than it's developing. Not a bad thing though, just not practical... yet.
- DanielRibeiro 16y agoGoot points. On this particular example, and in my experience, Google Chrome runs it quite smoothly on Linux. Firefox 3.6 has no hope of running it though.
- mbrubeck 16y agoOn my Ubuntu 10.04 laptop with a Core 2 Duo and Intel graphics, it's actually much smoother in Firefox 4 Beta than in Chrome 9 (29 fps in Firefox vs. 11 fps in Chrome). I don't have Chrome's dev or beta channels installed here. If I have time I'll try those out later...
- DanielRibeiro 16y agoYeah, I was using FF 3.6, which has really slow JS engine. Good to know FF 4 is really catching up.
- melling 16y agoWorks fine in FF4. There's no reason not to be using FF4 at this time. Just a few more bug fixes and it's done.
- bane 16y agoThis will date me but it's a familiar cycle. Back in the 80's there were crews coming up with graphics demos and pushing the tech to its limits. Your 286/386 would melt down but it was cool to 'fly' through a pseudo 3D 256 colour tunnel. http://www.demoscene.tv/ http://www.demoscene.tv/
- Andys 16y agoAbility to play stream of audio computed on the fly in JS, is the only thing stopping the demo scene from starting all over again in the browser.