[HN Gopher] Show HN: A WebGL Tribute to Tron, the movie that mad...
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Show HN: A WebGL Tribute to Tron, the movie that made me fall in
love with CGI
Author : mgzme
Score : 61 points
Date : 2020-05-23 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| sixothree wrote:
| The future was supposed to have surface lighting.
| pjmlp wrote:
| It looks great on the desktop.
|
| On a Nokia 7.1 Plus not so much, too slow loading the resource
| and it drops frames.
| lsb wrote:
| On a Pixel 4 it looks great!
| noughtme wrote:
| Nice! But also, please stop breaking the back button.
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| If you want a higher framerate, make the window smaller.
| SmallPeePeeMan wrote:
| How is this done? I mean, are they original animations or mapped
| from videos in some automated way?
| avolcano wrote:
| This is fantastic! Is it open source, by any chance? I'd love to
| see how you implemented the scanline filters and particle
| effects.
|
| I've been juuust dipping my toe into 3D games with a little
| spline generator I'm hoping to make a game with
| (https://disco.zone/splines/3/), and as a fellow Tron fan, I'm
| very inspired by what you were able to do aesthetically here!
| Yen wrote:
| Looks great!
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| This kind of generative art is, I think, one of the best "non-
| productive" things that computers have enabled.
|
| Two extremely minor nitpicks -
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| * When browsing through scenes, I notice that a title subtly
| fades in and out in the lower left corner. I missed this for the
| first several scenes, and then would often miss it when hitting a
| new scene, and I'd wonder what the scene was called.
|
| * The "gallery" menu to choose scenes isn't in the upper-left
| nav, but rather, the hamburger menu. Before trying it out, I
| expected that clicking on it would take me away from the
| graphics, and show me a gallery of other projects.
| lmedinas wrote:
| Pretty cool! You got some other impressive projects in your
| website. Congrats!
|
| It's impressive the type of 3D graphics that can be done in a
| modern browser, i'm surprised why we don't see more websites
| using these technologies.
| cycloptic wrote:
| With all due respect, please don't encourage more websites to
| use WebGL for trivial things! This stuff is only really useful
| for games or some other kind of interactive demo, and wastes
| power when used for decorative graphics on ordinary
| informational web sites.
|
| I think compiling native OpenGL ES programs to WASM is probably
| a bit more of a practical use case, but that comes with its own
| set of problems... WebGL still suffers from various security
| issues and bugs on certain platforms:
| https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/master/gpu/config/...
| BubRoss wrote:
| If only someone would invent a back button so you wouldn't
| have to stay on the same page.
|
| Also OpenGl ES isn't something that is compiled to WASM, it
| is a javascript API. WASM does not have access to the DOM or
| IO.
| na85 wrote:
| Interestingly enough, this website hijacks the back button
| so you can't go back. (Android/Firefox)
| testbot123 wrote:
| Couterpoint: encourage more people to use WebGL for trivial
| things! Learn new concepts, break old ways of thinking,
| experiment with half-baked ideas, allow yourself room to
| grow. Don't let people tell you that the web is one single
| thing with rules. There are no rules! You can do whatever you
| want!
| cycloptic wrote:
| That is all fine for a personal website, but if you're
| thinking of WebGL for general use, there are an absurd
| number of rules. I even linked some of them in the parent
| post.
| brundolf wrote:
| Agreed! If not for the current fashion of hyper-minimalism we
| could be living in the golden age of 3D/skeuomorphic UIs right
| now. I think it would bring some flavor back to the web. The
| rest of the site (click the three-bar menu icon in the top-
| right) is a testament to what can be done with this stuff in a
| UI setting.
| Melting_Harps wrote:
| Very cool, it reminds me of Lifelike - So Electric music video;
| that was like one of the first synthwave tracks I ever head, too.
| Thanks for reminding me of it.
|
| Never got into Tron, might have started it but left it mid way or
| earlier. And when the Disney versions came out I never bothered.
| I might give it a go this weekend.
| sosborn wrote:
| The original Tron was produced by Disney too.
| bitwize wrote:
| Nice! Some of these also remind me of Rez, which after eighteen
| years is still my favorite video game.
| syoc wrote:
| Reminds me of GLtron. It's GPL and tons of fun.
| http://gltron.org/
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