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Re: Lights

#71

Post by jklipton » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 3:09 AM UTC

This is awesome.

Re: Lights

#72

Post by theroo » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 4:11 AM UTC

5hoom wrote: post #48

WebGL is going to be huge very soon. Developers that are fluent with the technology are going to be in high demand once more people know what you can do & stuff like this is what everyone wants. Time to get reading!

Honestly, why would they be in more demand than Flash developers?

Re: Lights

#73

Post by skeletonjelly » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 4:15 AM UTC

morsch wrote: post #68

skeletonjelly wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Curses!

Try these I suppose:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lights+bassnecta...

Re: Lights

#74

Post by rymedia » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 4:30 AM UTC

This looked effing amazing on my 27inch monitor

Re: Lights

#75

Post by dangrossman » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 4:34 AM UTC

I wish the visualizations in my media player looked anywhere as good as that.

Re: Lights

#76

Post by keen » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 4:40 AM UTC

theroo wrote: post #72

5hoom wrote: post #48

WebGL is going to be huge very soon. Developers that are fluent with the technology are going to be in high demand once more people know what you can do & stuff like this is what everyone wants. Time to get reading!

Honestly, why would they be in more demand than Flash developers?

He didn't say they would be.

But to answer your question: mobile devices that don't support Flash.

Re: Lights

#77

Post by beambot » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 5:12 AM UTC

kruhft wrote: post #43

Crashed my browser, Linux Firefox 7.0.1...

Didn't just crash my browser... crashed + rebooted the entire machine! Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit, Chrome.

Re: Lights

#78

Post by mambodog » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 5:33 AM UTC

keen wrote: post #76

theroo wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, why would they be in more demand than Flash developers?

He didn't say they would be. But to answer your question: mobile devices that don't support Flash.

Mobile devices don't yet support WebGL either. If you want to do 3D on mobile you have to use CSS 3D Transforms (not supported on some platforms) or Canvas Context2D with a "software" renderer (slow).

Re: Lights

#79

Post by jahmed » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 6:07 AM UTC

tsunamifury wrote: post #34

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

I forget that the remix is in fact just a remix

Re: Lights

#80

Post by ehsanu1 » Fri, Oct 14, 2011, 6:28 AM UTC

spot wrote: post #70

nitrogen wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The issue is that if there does happen to be some type of bug which allows an exploit, simply pointing your webgl-enabled web browser at some page would let an attacker compromise your system. This wasn't really a problem before webgl, since to get 3d graphics running at all, an attacker would have had to have code execution privileges on a victim's computer (by which time it's already too late).