Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG
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#2Is it me, or that `addTo` api feels very strange. Creating new objects with no assignments, with the side effects of adding it to an illustration.
Re: Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG
#3Pop this on product hunt, you'll get your first few thousand users in no time.
> Zdog is directly inspired by Dogz, a virtual pet game by P.F. Magic released in 1995. It used flat 2D circle sprites to render the Dogz’ models, but in a 3D scene. See Dogz playthrough video here. Dogz were fully animated in real time, running, flopping, scratching (on Windows 3.1!). It was remarkable.
The new repeating the old. Love when someone looks historically, finds a great idea and re-implements it for a new usecase!
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#4Feels light and fast. Thank you for creating and sharing. I’m wondering what are some useful applications?
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#5I'd love to see the old tensorflow logo built with this.
Re: Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG
#6I notice that there are some issues with depth sorting (which I guess would be expected). It'd be complicated, but one way you could do the same effect without that issue is to use signed distance fields in a shader:
https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distfunctions/distfu...
(Demo at the bottom of the page)
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#7I'd love to see the old tensorflow logo built with this.
I was thinking of how cool it would look to be able to rotate all 600+ logos in the CNCF Interactive Landscape into the third dimension.
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#8Are there similar libraries for charting and plotting data? That would be super useful for visualizing complex datasets - in a 3d space.
Re: Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG
#9This is amazing. The examples are great and feel amost too easy.
I hope I get the chance to use it.
Re: Zdog – Pseudo-3D JavaScript engine for Canvas and SVG
#10Are there similar libraries for charting and plotting data? That would be super useful for visualizing complex datasets - in a 3d space.
I found vpython extremely helpful for visualizing an aerodynamic model of one of our parachute systems at work