Beautiful, but astoundingly wasteful of both network and (especially) compute resources. If you are going to spin your users' CPU/GPU, at least do it for something in the foreground!
Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
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Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#12Oh no... I suspect we're going to see this everywhere now.
Well, here it is in another story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779753
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#13Oh no... I suspect we're going to see this everywhere now.
I’ll take this over the faux PowerPoint slide presentations that caught on the last few years. Repeat after me: It’s a website, not a power point presentation It’s a website, not a power point presentation It’s a website, not a power point presentation
Do you have an example?
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#14This looks great, but it requires all of ThreeJS, even for the backgrounds that are really just some shaders. You don't really need a complete 3D library to just render 2 triangles that fill the entire screen and apply a shader to them.
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#15Or maybe don't
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ll take this over the faux PowerPoint slide presentations that caught on the last few years. Repeat after me: It’s a website, not a power point presentation It’s a website, not a power point presentation It’s a website, not a power point presentation
Do you have an example?
https://www.apple.com/iphone-13-pro/
And that’s supposed to be good version of this, so imagine all the copy cat knock offs.
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#17Why would you want to drain your customer's batteries?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ll take this over the faux PowerPoint slide presentations that caught on the last few years. Repeat after me: It’s a website, not a power point presentation It’s a website, not a power point presentation It’s a website, not a power point presentation
Do you have an example?
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#19Wow, very smooth. Once I wanted to do a similar thing to the "Net" visualization with plain 2D canvas (without WebGL) and it was so slooow.
Side-note to waste of battery/compute: it was not for a general purpose web page, but for a tablet device that is always plugged in to act as a idle animation.
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#20Pretty sure the clouds one is a straight rip from one of Inigo Quilez's shaders: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XslGRr (note the licence at the top...)
They should have just stuck with Apache or GPL license, as now any derivative work nullifies that adamant license and requires no attribution ngmi
Apache or GPL do not allow you to ban selling or minting NFTs.