Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
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Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
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Re: Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
#2Ugh: 'we developed a patent-pending solution called “ZyGL”.'
While there are a bunch of people working to make stuff performant on browsers, Zynga comes in from behind and starts patenting barely-novel stuff on top of it.
Re: Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
#3Ugh: 'we developed a patent-pending solution called “ZyGL”.' While there are a bunch of people working to make stuff performant on browsers, Zynga comes in from behind and starts patenting barely-novel stuff on top of it.
Relevant patent I think:
https://www.google.com/patents/US20130088491
If the emscripten lot had decided to patent "Method to reconstruct flow structures from binary machine code" then Zynga would not have the privilege of porting their game to the web in the first place.
Re: Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
#4Zynga? Whats a Zynga?
Re: Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
#5So ZyGL is basically the software rasterizer we all had to write in college graphics algorithms? So ZyGL is basically nothing more than Three.js, sans the option to render in SVG elements? And they want to patent this?
Sorry for the language, but seriously, fuck these guys. What complete trolls. This is completely unacceptable. Software rasterization fallback has been a thing forever. Actually, you know, longer than OpenGL of any flavor. Cuz that used to be the only way you could do graphics.
Is there any way I can help to get this patent blocked? And how do we go about shaming young developers into not joining Zynga just because it's a "game" company? This isn't the first unethical thing they've done.
Re: Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
#6I don't want to spoil their great "innovation patent" but Three.js has implemented this years ago (http://threejs.org/docs/#Reference/Renderers/CanvasRenderer).
Re: Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
#7So ZyGL is basically the software rasterizer we all had to write in college graphics algorithms? So ZyGL is basically nothing more than Three.js, sans the option to render in SVG elements? And they want to patent this? Sorry for the language, but seriously, fuck these guys. What complete trolls. This is completely unacceptable. Software rasterization fallback has been a thing forever. Actually, you know, longer than…
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Re: Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
#8Zynga? Whats a Zynga?
It's a word that you say when you're not kidding.
Zynga! Yes, I really am trying to patent the obvious, with loads of prior art.
Its opposite is "bazinga", which means "I was kidding".
Re: Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
#9This is all kinds of gross. Way to stay relevant, Zynga.
Re: Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
#10Zynga? Whats a Zynga?
It's a word that you say when you're not kidding. Zynga! Yes, I really am trying to patent the obvious, with loads of prior art. Its opposite is "bazinga", which means "I was kidding".
I asked a patent office employee about this. Apparently, a thing is only prior art if it is patented itself, or is published in an accepted academic journal, and then only if such things can be found in the ten hours the examiner is given per patent application.