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Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

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Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#12

Extracting one part of a conversation I had on Reddit with someone who's worked with GreenSock -- "GSAP is fairly standard on commercial sites. It’s the most mature and cross tested animation option, but it’s best features aren’t free. I’d argue there’s a good reason for that though, because the codebase is pretty impressive and can’t be cheap to maintain. Most people say the biggest advantage of GSAP is the timeline…

I agree. I've used GSAP since the AS3 Flash days so almost a decade. It's simply one of the best libraries I've ever used.

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#15

I am not aware of having any form of vestibular disorder, and it has generally taken fairly deliberate effort to cause any discomfort when looking at a screen— A Slower Speed of Light was able to make me feel mild discomfort after ten minutes, which I understand to be not uncommon, but it’s almost alone in that. But this site is awful . I was feeling fine before, but within half a minute I was feeling mild pain in th…

So just because you personally have trouble with something, no one should ever use it?

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

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post #13

I used to make these things with AS3 some 10 years ago... Is there a market for these types of websites? Maybe I should create some kind of "interactive web experience" and see if I can get some clients.

Flash has never been this smooth.

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#18

Extracting one part of a conversation I had on Reddit with someone who's worked with GreenSock -- "GSAP is fairly standard on commercial sites. It’s the most mature and cross tested animation option, but it’s best features aren’t free. I’d argue there’s a good reason for that though, because the codebase is pretty impressive and can’t be cheap to maintain. Most people say the biggest advantage of GSAP is the timeline…

Yeah. I was a Flash programmer back in the mid 2000s, and GSAP is what let us move away from Flash and onto JavaScript with a similar set of abstractions. The best animation system I’ve used for the web; and amazingly performant.

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

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I am not aware of having any form of vestibular disorder, and it has generally taken fairly deliberate effort to cause any discomfort when looking at a screen— A Slower Speed of Light was able to make me feel mild discomfort after ten minutes, which I understand to be not uncommon, but it’s almost alone in that. But this site is awful . I was feeling fine before, but within half a minute I was feeling mild pain in th…

Whereas it was 60FPS, perfectly smooth and quick loading on my iPhone SE. Weird.

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#20
post #13

I used to make these things with AS3 some 10 years ago... Is there a market for these types of websites? Maybe I should create some kind of "interactive web experience" and see if I can get some clients.

Flash has never been this smooth.

Everyone had a bad habit of leaving the FPS at 25 (iirc that was the default. Maybe 24). I wonder how smooth it can be if that was fixed and the same engineering went into it that goes into GSAP?

Actually I don’t really wonder; Flash is well dead, but it’s interesting to ponder!

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