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Realtime Three.js Coding

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Re: Realtime Three.js Coding

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Post by terhechte »

I love it. Reminds me of the Hotswap feature in Eclipse which Notch seems to use a lot for building his games. I wish there was something like that for UILayer, UIView and OpenGL in Objective-C. I know about the REPL in RubyMotion, but it's Ruby and a REPL is still not the same as having a live preview of editor changes. I really hate the fix-compile-test workflow, and especially for layers and layer animations and so on, I keep myself compiling and restarting an app multiple times until the speed, delay, looks parameters feel right.

I guess it's really difficult to implement something like that in Objective-C though. While it's possible to replace methods through method swizzling with new methods (say from a category), and while Objective-C allows to add categories to a NSBundle and dynamically add that NSBundle to a running app, this doesn't work on iOS as far as I know due to security limitations.

Re: Realtime Three.js Coding

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Post by Mizza »

Autistic and awesome. I always try to make transparent terminals for real time web development but give up in frustration and go back to doing it the old fashioned way.

This is a cool interface. It's fun to use math/graphing libraries in design. I used one for this: http://webp2p.org

Good stuff

Re: Realtime Three.js Coding

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Post by risratorn »

A little off topic perhaps but what amazes me the most is that the Three.js code is actually understandable for someone who doesn't do 3D programming. It all makes sense, and the interface is just perfect.

Re: Realtime Three.js Coding

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Post by Gigablah »

Mizza wrote: post #4

Autistic and awesome. I always try to make transparent terminals for real time web development but give up in frustration and go back to doing it the old fashioned way. This is a cool interface. It's fun to use math/graphing libraries in design. I used one for this: http://webp2p.org Good stuff

> Autistic

That's a rather unfortunate typo :)

Re: Realtime Three.js Coding

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Post by mrdoob2 »

Is not just for three.js. It's for anything HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Originally I built it because I needed a temporal editor for coding on ChromeOS and the new packaged apps -- for which there is an editor in the works already -- hadn't reached the dev channel yet.

Re: Realtime Three.js Coding

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Post by larister »

Brilliant. I wonder if it was inspired by Brett Victor's fantastic talk 'Inventing on Principle' (http://vimeo.com/36579366) - it seems there have been many such efforts to break the barrier between writing code and seeing the effects since that talk appeared. Maybe it's just that the talk made an impression on me and hence I've been noticing this sort of thing more. Either way, bravo Mr Doob.
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