May 30, 2011

Web demo goodies – May 2011

by Bent Stamnes

For this month’s roundup of WebGL goodies, we have collected a bunch of amazing pieces of WebGL/JavaScript-art. The big news this month was of course the release of “Rome” by Google+friends. If you haven’t seen it already, grab a WebGL-enabled browser (such as Google Chrome) and take a look right now – it’s pretty damn awesome. The team has also built a top-notch behind the scenes-page, which feature prominent pieces from the project, what the challenges where and the source-code to many of it’s components.

Above: From the demoscene, the coder Paulo Falcao has released an interactive WebGL-version of his earlier JS1k entry “704″, a raymarching demo.

Above: Bilotrip released their web-demo “Mkultra”, which uses HTML5+CSS+WebGL. It’s a surreal trip with great music and is by no means a typical 3D show.

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About the author, Bent Stamnes

Bent is a technologist, demoscener, musician and a real-time graphics evangelist. He has spoken at several high-profile events and companies such as FMX, FITC, Assembly, the Bay Area Visual Effects Society, Pixar, ILM, Adobe and NVIDIA. He arranges the Solskogen demoscene event in Norway and lives just outside of Oslo with his wife and daughter. Sometimes, when the cold Norwegian winter rages on, he wishes he lived in California.

12 Comments Post a comment
  1. avatar
    Sverre Lunøe-Nielsen
    Aug 22 2011

    Check out this one too: http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/

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    Ebbe Berge Smith
    Aug 23 2011

    That water-effect was way cool! Looking forward to checking WebGL, looks very promising. Looking forward to see more WebGL prods!

  3. avatar
    Sverre Lunøe-Nielsen
    Aug 23 2011

    Did you see his path tracer demo? http://madebyevan.com/webgl-path-tracing/

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    Bent Stamnes
    Aug 23 2011

    Sverre: don’t show that to Erik, he’ll freak out over the Cornell box. :) And yes, it’s pretty damn cool. Will be included in the roundup of august finds.

  5. avatar
    Ebbe Berge Smith
    Aug 23 2011

    Awsome stuff!

  6. avatar
    Erik Faye-Lund
    Aug 23 2011

    Gloom: I already saw that one, it kicks butt (unlike a certain other cornell box *cough cough*)! That Evan guy seems to kick ass!

  7. avatar
    Sverre Lunøe-Nielsen
    Aug 23 2011

    Erik: haha, at least it does not have mustaches!

  8. avatar
    MKVDB
    Aug 24 2011

    Nautilus 1k webGL port: http://www.mkvdb.com/webgl/webgl5.htm

  9. avatar
    Bent Stamnes
    Aug 24 2011

    I dig that you guys are bringing on suggestions for hidden gems, so I’d like to get those structured in the forum – please add them here and they’ll be considered for future installements of the “Web demo goodies”-series (in fact, one is coming up in just a few days!)

    http://www.displayhack.org/forums/topic/suggestions-for-the-web-demo-goodies-series/

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    vp79799
    Aug 24 2011

    MKULTRA doesn’t actually need Flash, but it used it during development.

  11. avatar
    Bent Stamnes
    Aug 24 2011

    vp79799: thanks for the clarification. Post updated.

  12. avatar
    cedric.pinson
    Aug 26 2011

    An intro invit from last demojs event in paris http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/demojs-fff/?f=webgl

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