Crashed latest iOS safari. Something like this probably should be disabled on mobile anyways to be nice to visitors’ battery
I must say it works great on Firefox on my old OnePlus 5 phone.
I really like the Waves preset.
Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
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Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#52This 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.
ThreeJS is a fucking great library, though.
Agreed, it's probably the best library for 3d graphics in JavaScript. That being said, if you want websites that load fast and perform well on a large number of devices, avoid using ThreeJS unless it's absolutely essential.
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#53I can foresee the clouds will be used in some religion-related websites, and the "futuristic-looking" animations in crypto websites.
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#54Oh no... I suspect we're going to see this everywhere now.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#55This 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.
ThreeJS is a fucking great library, though.
That's true, but that doesn't mean you should use it everywhere. Using Three.js to render a single quad is like using Rust+WASM to add two numbers.
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#56The attitude in this thread is the exact opposite of constructive. It is a great library that the person is giving you for free. Yes it can be improved, yes it you should not use it everywhere, but can you at least appreciate the execution and the fact that there is a real person behind it who can read the entitled diarrhea y'all "hur dur the internet should be just html and usenet" ppl are spewing? HN has become one…
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Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#57Safari on top-spec M1 > entire system lags
60fps with chromium on a 2012 thinkpad. I've heard good things about the m1...safari not so much
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#58The attitude in this thread is the exact opposite of constructive. It is a great library that the person is giving you for free. Yes it can be improved, yes it you should not use it everywhere, but can you at least appreciate the execution and the fact that there is a real person behind it who can read the entitled diarrhea y'all "hur dur the internet should be just html and usenet" ppl are spewing? HN has become one…
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Please don't post supercilious dismissals of other people. We all do it, and we all like it, but it's not intellectually interesting and therefore should be resisted on this site.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: the parent comment originally read "You have a bunch of engineers and designers that have been programmed to think they have to improve everything they come across. Its hard for them to appreciate anything without imagining how they would've done it. Relax people."
Please don't make retaliatory edits. It deprives threads of their context and is not in the spirit of the site.
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#59Similar background generator found here https://www.finisher.co/lab/header/
Re: Vanta.js: Animated 3D backgrounds for websites
#60The attitude in this thread is the exact opposite of constructive. It is a great library that the person is giving you for free. Yes it can be improved, yes it you should not use it everywhere, but can you at least appreciate the execution and the fact that there is a real person behind it who can read the entitled diarrhea y'all "hur dur the internet should be just html and usenet" ppl are spewing? HN has become one…
This looks like a case of the contrarian dynamic [1]. Dismissive comments tend to appear first, not because they represent the community, but because they're the fastest to write. Often there's a wave of such comments objecting to the OP, followed by a second wave objecting to the objections with some variation of "I can't believe how negative the comments here are". The irony is that they're driven by the same impul…
What if we force people to wait before they can comment?