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I've clocked many hours into After Effects, but seeing this in a browser and _interactive_ is amazing. Never would I have thought that JS and browsers would pro

I've clocked many hours into After Effects, but seeing this in a browser and _interactive_ is amazing. Never would I have thought that JS and browsers would progress so much in such a short period of time.

smackfu 13y ago
OTOH, it's mainly possible because computers are faster so Javascript isn't a slow language anymore, and the document model is just getting out of the way and letting you manipulate pixels directly.
- kmm 13y ago
  This isn't manipulating the pixels directly. Javascript is still way too slow to do that, and I don't think that will ever change. The real work is done by the graphics card. The Javascript only uploads a frame to the graphics card, makes it run a shader and then displays the adapted frame.
kaffiene 13y ago
WebGL is doing the heavy lifting.
DanielRibeiro 13y ago
People have been doing some pretty amazing things with WebGL lately: http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/webgl-breaking-into-the-real-world/ http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/webgl-...