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Re: Lights

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Seriously? You control the scene. The music is the ambiance that gives the scene life. Unless you can build something better, I'd say be impressed.

Again, I think I must be missing something. If you hit Play and don't touch the mouse you see the same exact animations as if you flew in a big arc at full speed. You control nothing more than a camera angle with a glowing avatar.

In most artist websites you control the play/pause button. I'm in the impressed camp.

Re: Lights

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post #63
post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Again, I think I must be missing something. If you hit Play and don't touch the mouse you see the same exact animations as if you flew in a big arc at full speed. You control nothing more than a camera angle with a glowing avatar.

In most artist websites you control the play/pause button. I'm in the impressed camp.

So I "control the scene" the same way I control a youtube video?

Re: Lights

#66

FYI, the Bassnectar remix of this song is very good.

That's a matter of taste & opinion, but personally I find the original to be much better. Not a huge fan of dubstep, I must say.

Re: Lights

#67
post #31

So uh, not to cause a fuss but why was the title edited? I can understand removing the word "impressive" as that is an opinion, but removing the explanation (interactive html5 / webgl presentation built with threejs) seems silly? How are users who casually browse news.yc supposed to look at this and have any clue what they're clicking? Titles that are descriptive should be more important than... well I can't think wh…

I agree - the only impressive thing about this is the technology.

I'd say the technology is the least impressive part of it. It feels like 303/acme from 1996. Only on gigahertz machinery instead of a 486. and using hardware acceleration for very basic 3d effects, rather than software generated texture/env mapping.

But hey, kids these days.

Re: Lights

#68

FYI, the Bassnectar remix of this song is very good.

It's amazing. Great build. For the lazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imixg3jrJS8

  Unfortunately, this video is not available in Germany because it may contain music for which GEMA has not granted the respective music rights.
  Sorry about that.
God damnit.

Re: Lights

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post #64
post #63

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In most artist websites you control the play/pause button. I'm in the impressed camp.

So I "control the scene" the same way I control a youtube video?

No, each person's video will be different depending on what they do.

Re: Lights

#70
post #22

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yes: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/06/cross-domain-webgl-textures... unless you mean something else...

There were also concerns about running arbitrary shader code on the GPU, which has DMA access (Yes, Direct Memory Access access is a bit redundant...) to system memory, as well as the framebuffer which is in GPU memory.

only a problem if there's a bug in the drivers. if you can find such a bug, please let me know.
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