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Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by komali2 »

andrenotgiant wrote: post #31

This got me thinking: Rewind 25 years, I can easily imagine 15 year-old me sinking DOZENS of hours into playing this "game". I remember I put much more time than that into a free game that came in a box of cereal[0]. Today, I loaded the site up and spend about 30 seconds on it before deciding "this is cool!" and moving on, probably never to return. What changed? I guess it's a mix of: (A) How I value my time. (B) The…

Did you have access to as many games back then? Maybe the novelty is less for this game?

If I wanted to play a game like this I'd play Lonely Mountain: Downhill, which has waaay more content.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by bobsmooth »

andrenotgiant wrote: post #31

This got me thinking: Rewind 25 years, I can easily imagine 15 year-old me sinking DOZENS of hours into playing this "game". I remember I put much more time than that into a free game that came in a box of cereal[0]. Today, I loaded the site up and spend about 30 seconds on it before deciding "this is cool!" and moving on, probably never to return. What changed? I guess it's a mix of: (A) How I value my time. (B) The…

You got older.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

#103

Post by talkingtab »

The course is great. I am a fan. This, not so much.

One of the unsung problems of any technology is understanding what you can do with it that you could not do before. Lets say you are a prehistoric person and somehow you find a modern steel axe. What do you do with it? Ultimately, it is not the axe that is important, it is the metallurgy.

Lets say you are a modern person and you found bitcoin. What do you do with it? Again, my thought is not the bitcoin, it is the cryptographic technology.

Lets say you are a modern person and you find threejs. What do you do with it? My personal reaction is that there is so much more that can be done with threejs, react-three-fiber, react-three drei, shaders, shadertoys, than this.

For me the definition of "cool" is things that change how you see the world. Where you never look at things the same way. A little example for me was this:

https://codepen.io/prisoner849/full/wBGQYvy

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

#104

Post by AstroBen »

vegabook wrote: post #86

This is a cool website but it's hardly groundbreaking. There have been hundreds (thousands?) of three.js/babylon.js in-browser demos over the past decade and this would qualify as top 10% area, but there's nothing here that hasn't been done before. It's fun, it's high quality, but it's not new, and as far as conveying useful information, it's actually quite cumbersome with high effort for low signal. And while it's p…

It also crashed my browser tab

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by ssl-3 »

frizlab wrote: post #81
RyanOD wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just be patient. It took a while to load up in Chrome on my MBP.

People are discovering what it is to download an app (:

Or they're discovering the limitations of Chrome.

It showed up very quickly on my desktop rig. Linux, Firefox, with a CPU that's over a decade old, a GPU of about half that age, and the cheapest Internet that Spectrum will sell me.

Just a second or three of a weird luminescent throbber, and then "Click here to start". No inexplicable lags at all -- it was all very smooth.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by wlesieutre »

Isamu wrote: post #96
arcanemachiner wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Apple's walled garden is for your own good, Citizen.

So WebKit is the walled garden? I thought it was the App Store.

The App Store is the walled garden that doesn't allow anyone else to ship a browser engine, except in certain markets where they have been forced by law to create a "Web Browser Engine Entitlement" that non-WebKit browsers can use with super special permission from Apple.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

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Post by sshadmand »

talkingtab wrote: post #103

The course is great. I am a fan. This, not so much. One of the unsung problems of any technology is understanding what you can do with it that you could not do before. Lets say you are a prehistoric person and somehow you find a modern steel axe. What do you do with it? Ultimately, it is not the axe that is important, it is the metallurgy. Lets say you are a modern person and you found bitcoin. What do you do with it…

How he created a world around his CV may not be groundbreaking, but very creative and done exceptionally well. I caught myself driving around for a couple minutes. Accepting cookies bakes a cookie, you get hidden easter eggs when you complete certain actions (like lift driving in water). Just like with any creative endeavor (movies, music, dance) doing something no one has ever seen isn't always the goal (striving for that can often feel forced/cringe); creating an emotion in someone is art - and this did that for me.

Re: Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio

#109

Post by 65 »

didibus wrote: post #92

It's cool, but I actually find it pretty bad as a website. The UX for navigating and all that, it's bad. I was hoping for some innovation in UX which justifies the use of 3D in the website.

The unique UX of the site, driving around in a 3D car, is what makes this site go viral on occasion. If it were "good" UX, e.g. a standard portfolio site, no one would care and this guy wouldn't be as well known as he is. Therefore the UX is good.
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