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by bd 12y ago
Yup, I wonder if this technology could be used to improve head-mounted displays, to be able to focus on different parts of the virtual scene, not just being always focused on infinity (probably together with high-precision eye-tracking to f
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by bd 12y ago
Multiple people on Twitter confirmed WebGL running on their devices with iOS 8 beta installed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ0aWbZjX6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX5hUdhI4Hs https://vine
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The Illustris project: a large cosmological simulation of galaxy formation(illustris-project.org)
4 points by bd 12y ago|0 comments
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by bd 12y ago
Here are some snapshots I made (selected images from letting the stream run for few hours, from about 4 orbits): http://imgur.com/a/99fS8
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by bd 12y ago
Great show. It's very sad that Christopher Evan Welch, the actor who brilliantly portrayed Peter Gregory character (main VC investor in Pied Piper) passed away (after filming just 5 episodes): http://www.businessinsider.com.
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by bd 13y ago
I do tonemapping in a final compositing step of deferred rendering. Here are formulas: http://filmicgames.com/archives/75 John Hable did a great job proselytizing virtues of linear space lighting and proper tonemapping
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by bd 13y ago
Good idea, added, thanks. It helped a bit, but eyes are indeed the weakest point. Even if material rendering would be perfect (which it isn't), there would be still missing eyelids deformations and there are no eyelashes. One day, step
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by bd 13y ago
Yup, bump map is indeed lower resolution (1024x1024) than diffuse skin texture (2048x2048). It would be better to use higher resolution one, but these were the data I had at hand. I also made a quick-and-dirty 2K gloss map so it should help
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by bd 13y ago
So far this was the only unexpected log. Messages in other ones come regularly in capabilities autodetection (the only way how to find out rendering into which render target formats is supported is to do trial frame buffer creation and chec
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by bd 13y ago
I try to push the limits of WebGL, I'm using almost everything there is, plenty of extensions (bear in mind these are not really exotic features, most are supported by majority of GPUs out there, native desktop games use much wider set
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by bd 13y ago
I tried to boot with my Intel HD 3000 enabled (secondary GPU in my Thinkpad) and while it was very slow, demo did work. I'm on Windows 7. Weird it doesn't work on newer GPUs and newer OS, regresses do happen sometimes. It does wor
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by bd 13y ago
This is actually on purpose, I'm trying to emulate a physical lens distortion, adding a subtle chromatic aberration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration
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by bd 13y ago
Did you get any errors/warnings in the console?
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by bd 13y ago
Author of the demo here. Some background info about origin of the head model (of which my WebGL rendering is just a pale shadow, check following links for really high quality offline renders and also animation capture). The head model was b
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by bd 13y ago
Thanks (creator here). Please be gentle on my server, right now it's rather overloaded ;). This particular demo is quite lightweight (2.5 MB), but some others are not. It's all just static files, so they should load eventually, ju
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by bd 13y ago
That's probably broken autofocus. It's done fully on GPU so it may be a bit tricky on some not-up-to-date drivers I guess. Which browser / OS / GPU did you use? Does this demo focus ok for you? http://alteredq
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by bd 13y ago
Open JavaScript console, write: renderer.setDOF(false);
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by bd 13y ago
It looks like a re-branding of Turbulenz platform (that has been around for a while, actually started as custom executable plugin, then moved onto JS+WebGL). It's basically game-as-service platform where you get a game engine for free
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by bd 13y ago
If you are interested about "Dark Igloo" (who's behind this site): "Dark Igloo is Dave Franzese and Mark Richard Miller. Their design and video work was recognized as part of 2012's ADC Young Gun's X class and
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by bd 13y ago
There is already a game in development using this technology - "Get Even" by Polish studio The Farm 51: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L48SdXmd0_k http://www.thefarm51.com/index.php?module=news&amp
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by bd 13y ago
Major desktop titles probably not but major mobile titles definitely yes [1]. WebGL + asm.js on desktop computers should be roughly equivalent to native iOS / Android applications on top-of-the-line mobile devices (with possibility to
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by bd 13y ago
Just to clarify - the bulk of the work here is done in GLSL shaders on the GPU, not with matrices in JavaScript. All that matrix code you see in the source here is basically just the minimum prerequisite for doing 3D graphics, it would be t
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by bd 13y ago
The demise of TV in a single chart: http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2013-10-21/less-time-i... Younger the viewers, less TV they watch.
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by bd 13y ago
Here are some screenshots from the personal site of the author: http://donolmstead.me/portfolio/trilithium-webgl/
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by bd 13y ago
I did a visualization of Ulam spiral a while ago with JS canvas when it was posted here on HN before: http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/ulam-spiral.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1452301
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by bd 13y ago
It's not supposed to be paid by either side: However, Google told the BBC that it had come up with the idea and that neither side was paying the other. "This is not a money-changing-hands kind of deal," John Lagerling, dir
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by bd 13y ago
Author of the original Association of American Publishers report posted a comment to Washington Post article with rebuttal of this interpretation of their data: As the person who produced the AAP report quoted here, I'm not given enou
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by bd 13y ago
Are you sure you are checking the right code? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26786471/img/luic-cubes.... https://github.com/luic/WebGL-Performance-Benchmark/blob/mas... Al
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by bd 13y ago
Ehm, at least one of the tests they used is wrong. They used this one as WebGL performance test: http://luic.github.io/WebGL-Performance-Benchmark/ Despite the name this program in fact doesn't use WebGL, it runs
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by bd 14y ago
Runs super smooth 60 fps on my Thinkpad with Nvidia Quadro 2000 on Windows 7. Very well done.

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