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Ask HN: Any cool ideas for an M.S. thesis involving WebGL?
Hi all!
I have to write a masters thesis and I want to use WebGL as my main technology.
It's such a new technology.
I was wondering if anyone had any cool ideas for a thesis involving webGL?
My first instinct is to write a game but I am but one person.
Thanks in advance.
- wesleyac 13y agoOff the top of my head: Make a 3d website. Make a game (Easier then it sounds) Make a scripting language that compiles to WebGL. Good luck!
- DanBC 13y ago> Make a 3d website. It might be interesting to make a 3d interface for HN. Articles with more activity float in the foreground, and articles with less activity float in the background. Or articles with comments from people you score highly float out more?
- kohanz 13y agoI've seen some examples of WebGL being applied to medical image visualization, but my gut tells me this area is still ripe for contributions.
- matthudson 13y agoI'm really interested in seeing some of those examples. If you don't remember the links, can you point me in the general direction?
- kohanz 13y agoHere's one example, from a research institute where I studied years ago: http://www.imaging.robarts.ca/~dcantor/ http://www.imaging.robarts.ca/~dcantor/
- kennethtilton 13y agoYou are right, a game would be a tonne of code. Massive encouragement on the WebGL, btw, 3D made me feel like a kid again. Here is a project I have always wanted to do: given a wire-frame, simulate the resulting minimum soapfilm surface algorithmicaly. I believe that maximizes the fun/LOC ratio. You might look at Javelin, btw, a ClojureScript lib.
- madisonmay 13y agoTake a look at acko.net for some inspiration!
- kineticfocus 13y agoA good example of the creative flexibility that GL allows: http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light
- nickthemagicman 13y agoThat game looks really cool. Very original idea.
- iends 13y agoMaybe master thesis work differently from where you are...but I think any thesis should start with defining your research problem, and working from their to define the tools you will use to investigate the problem. Picking the tools first is backwards. In any case, I think compiling C++ to javascript/webgl using emcscripten is an interesting space, and surely there are a lot of open problems in this area.
- nickthemagicman 13y agoI think the tech could play a major part of your research especially if it's as new as WebGL.
- nickthemagicman 13y agoHey thanks yall for the ideas!! Some good stuff to think about.
- theoa 13y agoYou might also ask this question on the WebGL Developers Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/webgl-dev-list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/webgl-dev-list