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Links to many interesting demos. https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/glsl.html https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/glsl.html

marky1991 2y ago
Question to whoever knows anything about this kind of stuff: Are loading times of these ever likely to get (meaningfully) better? The demos are all interesting, but having to wait forever (10-20s) before they load is excruciating. I would be afraid to know what the loading time of a non-demo kind of game would be.
- stephenhumphrey 2y ago
  Unknown, but for anyone under-resourced, this experiment from the site loaded instantly for me: https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/ferro_9/ferro_9.html https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/ferro_9/ferro_9.html
  - marky1991 2y ago
    This one also loaded basically instantly for me as well, but for example this one: https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/clouded_cracker_2/clouded_cracker_2.html https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/clouded_cracker_2/cloude... took ~15 seconds to load and then runs at 9 fps on a pretty powerful dev machine. (granted, it is running a bit slow and I'm also running a vm at the same time, so maybe that's the cause)
    - marky1991 2y ago
      Ok, it turns out it's all my fault: fps was terrible due to the vm I was running simultaneously, it oes to 60 fps with vm turned off; and the loading time was because I was downloading it through my company's vpn.
      - qingcharles 2y ago
        LOL. Yeah, it loads in about a second on my PC which is five generations old and has a $200 GPU, so you definitely shouldn't have been struggling :)
- nickthegreek 2y ago
  That might be local hardware related? These are loading up in under 3s for me.
- Joel_Mckay 2y ago
  I would recommend checking a reasonable game engine load time: https://www.babylonjs.com/games/ https://www.babylonjs.com/games/ The engine examples also have fluid like surface displacement animations in shader tricks. Fun stuff for sure, but would never let it in production for a few reasons =3
- girvo 2y ago
  They loaded instantly for me, but I'm on Firefox with a 5600X + RTX 4070 with a 1GB/s down internet connection
- pseudocomposer 2y ago
  None take more than 5s (most 2-3s) on my iPhone 16 Pro on a 400Gbps fiber connection.
Willingham 2y ago
This one is particularly mesmerizing https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/young_5/young_5.html https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/young_5/young_5.html
- hsuduebc2 2y ago
  Damn. I feel kinda physically unstable watching this. Mesmerizing indeed
siavosh 2y ago
Like a fever dream.

marky1991 2y ago

Question to whoever knows anything about this kind of stuff: Are loading times of these ever likely to get (meaningfully) better? The demos are all interesting, but having to wait forever (10-20s) before they load is excruciating. I would be afraid to know what the loading time of a non-demo kind of game would be.

stephenhumphrey 2y ago
Unknown, but for anyone under-resourced, this experiment from the site loaded instantly for me: https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/ferro_9/ferro_9.html https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/ferro_9/ferro_9.html
- marky1991 2y ago
  This one also loaded basically instantly for me as well, but for example this one: https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/clouded_cracker_2/clouded_cracker_2.html https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/clouded_cracker_2/cloude... took ~15 seconds to load and then runs at 9 fps on a pretty powerful dev machine. (granted, it is running a bit slow and I'm also running a vm at the same time, so maybe that's the cause)
  - marky1991 2y ago
    Ok, it turns out it's all my fault: fps was terrible due to the vm I was running simultaneously, it oes to 60 fps with vm turned off; and the loading time was because I was downloading it through my company's vpn.
    - qingcharles 2y ago
      LOL. Yeah, it loads in about a second on my PC which is five generations old and has a $200 GPU, so you definitely shouldn't have been struggling :)
nickthegreek 2y ago
That might be local hardware related? These are loading up in under 3s for me.
Joel_Mckay 2y ago
I would recommend checking a reasonable game engine load time: https://www.babylonjs.com/games/ https://www.babylonjs.com/games/ The engine examples also have fluid like surface displacement animations in shader tricks. Fun stuff for sure, but would never let it in production for a few reasons =3
girvo 2y ago
They loaded instantly for me, but I'm on Firefox with a 5600X + RTX 4070 with a 1GB/s down internet connection
pseudocomposer 2y ago
None take more than 5s (most 2-3s) on my iPhone 16 Pro on a 400Gbps fiber connection.

Willingham 2y ago

This one is particularly mesmerizing https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/young_5/young_5.html https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/young_5/young_5.html

hsuduebc2 2y ago
Damn. I feel kinda physically unstable watching this. Mesmerizing indeed

siavosh 2y ago

Like a fever dream.