Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by wjd » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 1:36 PM UTC

Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL
wdobbie.com

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by exDM69 » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 1:26 PM UTC

I see all white pages with no text on them. "Show grid" shows yellow and green rectangles. Linux, Firefox 43, Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by moron4hire » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 2:21 PM UTC

It's almost completely unreadable on my Android phone. The character shapes are mostly there, but the triangles overlap in weird ways, like vertex order might be wrong it something.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cvutftylbj77d8r/Screenshot_2016-01...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/u3qn9h5pgw2p671/Screenshot_2016-01...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y4h93ycueykrjai/Screenshot_2016-01...

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by green7ea » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 2:25 PM UTC

exDM69 wrote: post #2

I see all white pages with no text on them. "Show grid" shows yellow and green rectangles. Linux, Firefox 43, Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Same here, all white on chrome, linux, nvidia proprietary. The previous text rendering demo worked on the same setup.

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by aurelian15 » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 2:28 PM UTC

exDM69 wrote: post #2

I see all white pages with no text on them. "Show grid" shows yellow and green rectangles. Linux, Firefox 43, Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Works flawlessly here, Linux, Fedora 23, Firefox 42, Radeon HD 7770, open source driver

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by fla » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 2:29 PM UTC

green7ea wrote: post #4

exDM69 wrote: post #2

I see all white pages with no text on them. "Show grid" shows yellow and green rectangles. Linux, Firefox 43, Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Same here, all white on chrome, linux, nvidia proprietary. The previous text rendering demo worked on the same setup.

Me too. The previous version of the demo used to work.

Chrome 47.0.2526.73 (64 Bit) Linux

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by arethuza » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 2:31 PM UTC

Works fine, and is rather impressive, on Windows 10 - both in FF and Chrome.

Doesn't work on iPad - just get blank pages.

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by fla » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 2:32 PM UTC

I'm curious about the choice of bmp for http://wdobbie.com/warandpeace/glyphs.bmp

Why not a png ?

Edit: So after a quick test:

* glyphs.bmp 53.5 MB

* glyphs.png 7.6 MB

I guess it could be shrinked even more.

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by wjd » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 2:42 PM UTC

exDM69 wrote: post #2

I see all white pages with no text on them. "Show grid" shows yellow and green rectangles. Linux, Firefox 43, Nvidia proprietary drivers.

Loaded up linux and I got the same issue. Working on it!

Re: Show HN: War and Peace and WebGL

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Post by wjd » Sun, Jan 24, 2016, 2:45 PM UTC

fla wrote: post #8

I'm curious about the choice of bmp for http://wdobbie.com/warandpeace/glyphs.bmp Why not a png ? Edit: So after a quick test: * glyphs.bmp 53.5 MB * glyphs.png 7.6 MB I guess it could be shrinked even more.

The .bmp file is served gzipped to 7 MB.

LZMA and Bzip2 both get it down to about 3 MB but I'd need to use a javascript decompressor.