Undulating Monkey
August 10, 2011Paul Lewis
- http://www.aerotwist.com
- Location:
- Stockholm
Launch Experiment
Not working? This is a WebGL experiment, so try running it with Google Chrome.
Slow? Not Working? Try it in Google Chrome.
From the Author:
I'm back with another experiment where Suzanne the monkey gets pushed around.
This time I just wanted to do a test to see how many vertex positions and normals I could update directly in JavaScript. Turns out 2,000 is just fine :)
I also added in a bit of environment mapping. And weirdness. Always add weirdness.
Technology:
WebGL
Comments
so weird
Reply to this commentOkay it's working, I tried it on my 3yrs old laptop and yeah the videocard wasn't enough. You should have some detection and message for "old" gpu-s like in the webgl terrain experiment.
Reply to this commentWell, tried it twice but nothing happens for me, just an empty grey background. Using chrome on win7. What could be the problem? (Flash stage3D is running nics though.)
Reply to this commentYeah it was a stress test for vertex manipulation. The unminified code can be found here: https://github.com/paullewis/a3/blob/master/deploy/www/samples/09/js/a3.sample.js
Reply to this commentnice, all manip in js? Hard to page through all the minified code but that's really encouraging. Might get even more horsepower by pushing some or all of the distortion to the vertexShader....
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Reply to this commentPoor old monkey...
Reply to this commentAwesome, had a lot of fun with this!
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Reply to this commentSo cool! First web gl experiment that is fast.
Reply to this commentThat's the monkey from Blender :D
Reply to this commentanother cool demo, loving it.
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Reply to this commentMy friends thought it was disturbing. In my opinion it is a very cool example of vertexes. I was very impressed with how fluid it was.
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Reply to this commentQuite a cool demo! I was surprised to see how fluid it was running despite being Javascript and not a vertex shader. Very impressive!
Reply to this commentnice and fluid! What is the poly/vertex count on the monkeys face?
Reply to this comment2,000 vertices - could be higher but seeing as how JS has to crunch through all of them per frame *and* calculate the normals I didn't think it was too smart to up the count.
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