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that is very cool. How was the glow crated using CSS3 for the Sun?

this is all canvas and webgl, no css

Not that I've actually checked the code yet, but the project page states "CSS3D" as one of the technologies used.

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/100000-stars/

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I need to learn 3D graphics for some of my scientific projects. Specifically, I want to rotate clouds of points just as shown here. I have no idea where to start with doing this, however. Can somebody point me to a good tutorial or other resource in 3D graphics?

Re: 100,000 stars

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This is without a doubt one of the coolest and most beautiful webgl experiments I have seen in the last few years, it actually struck a real chord with me - music, lighting, effects, the zoom and the sheer beauty of it.

For those people unlucky enough to not be able to load this app (it took me quite a while) here is a particularly fantastic image I took (without asking or any right to, of course) - http://shanearmstrong.co.uk/content/cdn/the_beauty_of_the_co... - I apologize for any slow load times.

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I need to learn 3D graphics for some of my scientific projects. Specifically, I want to rotate clouds of points just as shown here. I have no idea where to start with doing this, however. Can somebody point me to a good tutorial or other resource in 3D graphics?

If you just want to rotate point clouds, it might be hard to do better than taking apart and studying a project that does that (like this one).

http://www.arcsynthesis.org/gltut/index.html will give you a good general background, though.

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I am on rMBP and it hardlocked Chrome after I navigated towards the sun and clicked the information button about the sun. Worked fine until then, really cool.
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