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Here's a much cooler version by Nop Jiarathanakul. Nop's version has shape targeting, which is especially cool. Check out the running horse. http://www.iamnop.

• jbogp 12y ago
  Big difference between this one (which is great) and OP's is that OP's done all the WebGL himself whereas Nop's uses Three.js
  • nopjia 12y ago
    here's one with 1 million particles done in vanilla WebGL http://www.iamnop.com/particles-mrt/ http://www.iamnop.com/particles-mrt/ (it's a little unstable since it uses WEBGL_draw_buffers)
• conkrete 12y ago
  On my currently laptop I only pull about 5fps when viewing this. Indeed cool, but the OPs (albeit more simple) runs at a solid 60fps
  • msl09 12y ago
    yeah iamnop crashes my firefox
    • cookiecaper 12y ago
      Runs at near-60 FPS in Firefox for me. Using Linux and Firefox 37.
      • msl09 11y ago
        Firefox 31 from the debian wheezy package
    • ChristianGeek 12y ago
      Close to 60fps in Chrome 41 on my 2014 MBP.
  • davesque 12y ago
    Runs at 60fps on latest Chrome for me. I'm on a retina macbook pro 15".
  • voltagex_ 12y ago
    3fps here on what should be a beefy i7 with a relatively recent integrated GPU. Anyone want to comment on what the bottleneck is?
    • nopjia 12y ago
      CPU has little to do with it, since most of the heavy lifting is done by the GPU. Maybe that integrated chip isn't enough.
      • nness 12y ago
        It does depend whether the particles are drawn using shaders or the simpler canvas drawing commands. Without shaders, it would be very CPU intensive. However this site has definitely taken the shader approach.
• pbhjpbhj 12y ago
  CAUTION iamnop.com link plays quite loud music from start (for me).
• adamnemecek 12y ago
  cool stuff, here's the sauce https://github.com/nopjia/webgl-particles https://github.com/nopjia/webgl-particles
  • nopjia 12y ago
    correction: https://github.com/nopjia/webgl-particles2 https://github.com/nopjia/webgl-particles2