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Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

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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…

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

I will not be unique in this. Many people will be negatively affected by it, some far, far worse than me. (For some history on far more subtle things than this causing problems for some people, look into what happened in iOS 7 (I think it was that version) in what led to the “prefers reduced motion” setting.)

Quite apart from the how it will made some people feel sick, there is simply too much that is different about the site, so that a great many people, when they encounter it, will get lost very quickly. It’s not as bad as mystery meat navigation, but its navigation scheme is very dubious, because it lacks the “tells” of normal web browsing.

It’s an interesting technical demonstration, but not a good website for normal people to use. For a film-maker it may or may not backfire, but I’ve seen a couple of sites of developers, designers and such agencies, that looked and behaved vaguely like this from a navigation perspective, and the main thing that I take out of such sites is that the the creator of the site didn’t care about accessibility. And I don’t mean making the site usable for disabled people, I mean making the site usable for anyone. I would never hire any such person or organisation for any web development work.

(I failed to notice this the first time, but this site is also enormous. I killed it off as it hit 75MB, and I think it was still loading more video. I will freely and precisely describe such a page size as absurd and insane. I would not have loaded the site even once had I realised what and how large it would be.)

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#22
How long does this take for others to load? On my fairly high-spec computer it was nearly 30 seconds on the first load, with not much indication that something was loading besides the slim loading bar. Visually it looks pretty slick but I wonder if it's worth the tradeoff? Subsequent loads seem much faster, though.

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#23
I posted the other day about my desire to see more programmers strive towards demo scene type work in their creative endeavours. Seeing this makes me think about my own completely inadequate portfolio. Writing blog posts, pointing to half finished proof of concept repositories, etc, seems great, but... What if I concentrated on writing things that normal people could see and be interested in without falling asleep?

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#24

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…

Why did you keep looking at it then? If you can't manage yourself why should anyone pander to you?

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#25
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.

For equal amount of animations Flash is smoother than most HTML5 crap.

HTML5 can not even streaming vector animations.

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.

> Flash has never been this smooth.

Yes it has. You could even create your own shaders/filters with a specialized language. Frankly it's great that things like that can be done with js/html but people did way more impressive things 15 years ago.

I'm really not impressed at all, personally.

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#27

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…

The people maintaining it are super helpful and friendly! Honestly the best experience I've had on any forum. Highly recommended.

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#29

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…

The main scrolling didn’t bother me, but scrolling inside the “hamburger menu” made me feel sick almost immediately. I think it was a combination of the scrolling and the motion of the video I was mousing over. Be careful with this stuff folks!

Re: Tao Tajima – WebGL and GreenSock Animation

#30
It is a totally new web experience and I think it's amazing (it is innovative for me). Probably it can be a little confusing on mobile devices but on desktop the effect is fantastic and really creative. You can work on it.. for the rest, compliments for the great good job.
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