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Canopy

Featured Experiment February 12, 2009
Author:

Ryan Alexander

http://onecm.com
Location:
San Francisco
Rate Experiment (1005 ratings):
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From the Author:

Canopy is a fractal tree zoomer, vector style. Press play to start falling, click to go faster. Try turning Mutation and Bloom on. The tree will get a little weirder. What kind of forest is this?

Technology:

JavaScript / Canvas / JQuery

Comments

By shoupzsweb on August 23, 2010

Wow dude that is VERY mesmerizing, i just spent 30 minutes hitmotised, wow, i love it, but dude this thing can be dangerous, epesially old people LOL anyway, that thing is awesome i give (( 5 STARS )) Good Job dude

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By shoupzsweb on August 23, 2010

spelling SUCKS,

i mean

hypnotized

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By Kathakali on August 21, 2010

its great !!!!!!!!

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By Achshr on August 07, 2010

now that's a one heck of a tree..

fab.. i could spend a whole day doing this :)

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By Paul K on August 04, 2010

Wonderful..

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By Giuseppe on July 26, 2010

really good

http://www.giuseppesicari.it

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By alpaproductions on July 18, 2010

I'm speachless!

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By Nazne on July 13, 2010

can't...stop...staring...

a bad thing to have at work, surely, but it'd be a fun screensaver to hypnotize coworkers with.

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By steve on June 28, 2010

NEEDS TO BE SCREENSAVER

still hypnotized

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By omeleneunwaprisca on July 24, 2010

c'est àdire

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By sandeep.kumar on June 12, 2010

hilo

sandeepkumar

9888076028

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By Shravan Aras. on June 12, 2010

I want to study this. Can i get the javascript source code for this ?

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By Alec on July 08, 2010

Looks like the code is here:

http://code.google.com/p/chrome-canopy/source/browse/#svn/trunk

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By Shravan Aras on August 27, 2010

Thank you got the code.

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By Lewis on May 30, 2010

You forgot Opera :(

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By mw on July 13, 2010

It's a Chrome Study

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By you on May 28, 2010

works even on android 1.5 browser! a little slow though.

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By Matthew on May 26, 2010

Thank you.

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By Marko on May 18, 2010

not fast enough, pretty slow

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By Stefan on June 08, 2010

slow? It runs smooth on my very slow netbook!

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By Maria Raven on May 15, 2010

this is absolutely fantastic and i love it !well done !Im sure it deserved all the hours of hard work ^.^

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By Ryan Alexander on June 16, 2010

Thanks, but it took me years to finish this.

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By Tudd on July 27, 2010

It's WIN on a WEBPAGE!

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By Real Alexander on June 29, 2010

Hah wtf who wrote this?

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By Suzy on June 16, 2010

WOW! Nice work indeed, truly mystical :D x

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By Marky.not really.marko on May 05, 2010

makes me dizzy

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By marceloizabelcosta on May 01, 2010

mereceu nota 10

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By shaman4d on April 30, 2010

Very impressive. I dont know that it is possible to realize on JS.

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By sofia on April 29, 2010

very niceeee

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By sofia on April 29, 2010

:))

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By Miranda on April 29, 2010

that's pretty cool.

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By Jay Stirrat on April 16, 2010

I want this as my screensaver, this is pretty darn cool. Thanks for your endeavors! Do you think you could make this a downloadable screen saver? I'd pay a dollar or two for it.

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By yama on April 12, 2010

sweet fractal

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By dale on April 10, 2010

Can it be optimized to run faster?

Is there any way to add v-sync?

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By Tudd on July 27, 2010

If it went any faster it would fly by you. :P

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By joides on March 14, 2010

sadsad

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By Janus on March 12, 2010

This is a little wierd. I might be doing it wrong, but aren't fractals ever-expanding patterns? I don't see any pattern. Second off, it'd be a lot better if the branches started rendering before you get to a certain point (like, start rendering as soon as you see it, and as you go farther in, it finishes rendering), it'd be a lot smoother... if you understand what I mean. Also a variable zoom speed would be useful. Cool stuff, good job man.

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By The Three Kings on March 10, 2010

We beat the game while stoned, you guys suck.

Check the photo:

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/1282/beatthegame.png

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By someone on May 09, 2010

I can do that too, all I just have to do is print screen it, then just simply rub out the sub-branches and voila, I beat the game too. Those guys don't suck. It was just a simple edit. I could see the microsoft paint too.

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By ME on May 05, 2010

WHO CARES: Humps

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By frigara on March 02, 2010

toulon france.

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By Alexander Madjar on February 12, 2010

Could you turn this into a stylized arbitrary L-System generator? that would be pretty cool.

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By The Three Kings on March 10, 2010

Could you turn this into an egg? That would be pretty cool.

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By ME on May 05, 2010

NO : Still a bunch of HUMPS

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By Steve on March 31, 2010

Why do you have to mock someone who obviously knows way more about computers than you just because you feel the real world isn't fun enough. If you are going to troll get out of here.

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By ME on May 05, 2010

Well said

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By DB on April 11, 2010

Could you turn this into a rock? That would be pretty cool.

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By Philip on January 31, 2010

Works beautifully in Opera 10.5 - would be nice if you could update the little message at the beginning to incorporate opera.

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By Phillip on January 26, 2010

This Would Make A Good Screensaver.

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By James on March 23, 2010

OH GOD WHAT A BRILLIANT THOUGHT!!!

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By sachin thakur on January 17, 2010

good creativity....

dis would be use for any mobile as screen saver or themes ..

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By Yani Holm on January 16, 2010

cooool!!!

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By Emily on January 06, 2010

Eh... It's not fun enough for me, too boring

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By mark on December 29, 2009

very good

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By marissa on January 06, 2010

wow...............this is weird............but cool,i guess.

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By mary on January 27, 2010

hillo..

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By Taylor on December 09, 2009

It would be awesome if it could be synced with iTunes or Windows Media Player and the fractals could expand to the beat...hmmmm. If only I were a programmer lol.

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By Delan on December 06, 2009

how do you get the iframe for this because i want to put this on my blog

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By jack on December 04, 2009

this is fractal geometry, closely related to chaos theory.

Hasn't anybody heard of the mandelbrot set?

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By Severyn on November 24, 2009

Wow!!! It's great!!!

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By jay on November 19, 2009

I'm lost, what the heck is this suppposed to prove?

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By tina on November 15, 2009

hey this is really cool, but what would i use this for? a background? screen saver? i'm not sure...

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By sw on November 22, 2009

I really want this to be my screensaver.

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By Niavlys on December 21, 2009

Me too!

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By DEEP BHATT on November 12, 2009

love it, through the heart

i like it & loveit

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By Pa1 on November 11, 2009

very cool , it looks very much like flash ... very fast animations.

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By sdf on November 05, 2009

Yes there is, it's called Chromium.

I recommend just typing "Chromium [Linux Distro] Download" into google.

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By denii on November 03, 2009

must b gittin somethin out of csience chan reminded me of fractal b4 i read it!! WWOO HHOO

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By Paul on October 24, 2009

It goes great with Seek & Destroy by Metallica.

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By hasan on October 19, 2009

wonderful!

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By ahmad on October 18, 2009

friends

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By John on October 10, 2009

Wow....very eerie and odd, but interesting....I like it!

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By JL on October 09, 2009

anyone know how to capture screenshots?

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By Clem on January 11, 2010

on firefox :

right click > save image as...

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By satinyou on October 18, 2009

try pressing the print screen key then going into paint and pasting

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By What is that? on October 09, 2009

useless

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By Chantu on October 08, 2009

Awesome.

I loved the speed.

Great work.

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By Intellidepth on October 08, 2009

Subliminal sensory exploration at a rapid pace. Eerily brilliant.

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By Lily Fang on October 04, 2009

For some reason this is depressing, but it's still a great tihngymajig!!!

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By regan on September 25, 2009

cool quite fun i have checked out so many and i think this the best so far good job dude :)

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By kabal on September 07, 2009

ye....dis is da fastest browser ever made.......

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By ram on September 03, 2009

I loved it.

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By MMam on August 29, 2009

very coooooooooooooooooooool!

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By L W Myers Jr on August 23, 2009

I am a new user, so I can't say which way just yet, but you better believe I am going put this sucka to the test!

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By Bettie Gatewood on August 22, 2009

I am 74 years old and this so far may be the best browser for me to use.I have been a google user for 4 years and have used the Beta Chrome ever since it started.Now kids your hard work is paying off. this is great!!Proud of you.

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By danish on August 22, 2009

i happy to see to your pics and add my pics

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By danish on August 22, 2009

happy

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By Gaag on August 22, 2009

I'm Lovn it

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By Cetanu on August 19, 2009

Awesome! I loved it.

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By ramy on August 19, 2009

coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

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By ARTA on August 15, 2009

good

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By Timothy Ameche on August 12, 2009

Thank you ! I love Chrome. I am a mac user most of the time. Chrome is Faster than any Browser that I have use in the past. Please make a Mac version soon. Thanks again.

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By bb010g on August 14, 2009

You can get one at http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac. It's a developer version, but it looks like it's now up to speed, and looks the same as the beta. It will auto-update, so sometimes you will see a .dmg mount at login, which is Chrome updating. I use it, and it works fine. Even themes work!

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By Bill Bledsoe on August 27, 2009

Is there a linux version? I am hooked and go into withdrawals when I go to my linux machine.

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By rn on August 14, 2009

Yes, pretty please to making a mac version; and for you other exceptional human beings designing/writing for Chrome, a very big pretty please to all of you to making mac-compatible versions of your experiments.

Cheers!

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By ktx on August 09, 2009

this would so rule if synced with audio :D

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By Mina on August 02, 2009

Lovely! What a nice idea. I love the graphics of the trees.

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By Mortadela on July 30, 2009

Nossa muito legal pena que fiquei com dor de cabeça ao ver isso

____________________________________________

Que é isso n~~ao tem brasileiro aqui

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By Me on July 29, 2009

Where is the play button?

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By Ian on July 27, 2009

Wow. This is beautiful. Actually quite inspirational as well.

It makes me want to create music.

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By Old Nick on July 21, 2009

It works better for me in Opera 10b2 then FF3.51 :)

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By Neekee B. on July 17, 2009

So cool! Canopy looks like cancer to me!

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By pixelbobby on July 14, 2009

I'm in love with this! Bravo!

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By caylan on July 07, 2009

This program is awesome and should be made a screensaver, because I would stare at it forever.

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By someguy on June 24, 2009

This would be an awesome screensaver!

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By swissman on June 16, 2009

Works in Firefox 3.x on a good computer.

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By md on June 16, 2009

It re-centers and starts growing wherever you click. Nice.

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By cowarj on June 07, 2009

What does mutate do?

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By ryan on August 25, 2009

Hey. Mutuate causes the tree to change styles over time. It will get more or less branches, curlier or straighter, and more and less complex.

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By Tarun Durga on May 01, 2009

You should add some poetry to this... with some music... let me know if you'd like help with verse. This is really good!

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By Naomi Miller on May 13, 2009

This is truly really good! When I was in second grade, we had to do a project by drawing a tree without leaves. This was a challenge for me because I felt, what if this branch has its own branches and that one have even more branches, and that it could go on forever

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By Me on April 29, 2009

Whoa. I could watch that all day.

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By Andres on March 25, 2009

This is so good I almost don't enjoy it thinking about "where do we go from here". Well done.

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By GiM on March 20, 2009

I could just sit and watch it.

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By Fu Cheng on March 20, 2009

Amazing!

I love it.

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By Mike Reckmeyer on March 20, 2009

THIS TAKES THE GOLD! awesome "triippy" tree maker... Google Chrome... "mesmerizing" is right... sweet

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By Jonnan on March 20, 2009

Vastly cool in that way only fractals can be -

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By Bielawski on March 19, 2009

Pretty smooth in Firefox 3.6a1pre. It would be nice if you could choose to zoom out.

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By Aleksi on March 19, 2009

Damn these are awesome!

I've seen some awesome work already years ago, but to even consider this kind of stuff outside demoscene ...

Aleksi / NuCode.fi

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By itzel on March 19, 2009

it's really cool. but don't like how you can zoom in...BUT you CAN'T zoom out. you should be able to zoom out 2. that would make it perfect

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By lukar on August 12, 2009

if you did that you would consume lots of memory the beauty is not having to store the image. Just display it.

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By Lucas Salies Brum on March 19, 2009

Excellent work...

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By david on March 19, 2009

Nice , very fast in chrome beta

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By carlos on March 19, 2009

very cool !

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By Graham Evans on March 19, 2009

works on firefox 3.0.7 - fabbo. Tim Burton esque.

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By John Ellson on March 19, 2009

My wife thinks it needs more bugs - of the insect kind.

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By Jurgi on March 19, 2009

Nice. Works on Opera, too.

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By Markos Giannnopoulos on March 19, 2009

I think it goes faster on my Safari 4/Mac from the youtube video :)

Would love to be able to test in on Chrome/Mac though when it comes

Other than that, the visual result is amazing!

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By daniel on March 19, 2009

it goes faster in my chrome 1.0 then in the youtube video.

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By TB on March 19, 2009

I wish I can have this as a screensaver ^^

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By Rich on July 26, 2009

I agree!

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By Mike in LA, CA on March 18, 2009

I like it but I am getting motion sick...yet I can't turn my head!!!

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By JA in LA, CA USA on March 18, 2009

Love it. Very mesmerizing.

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