Some cool new stuff today:
- If you’re in Menlo Park, California on Tuesday 14 December, there’s only one place to be: WebGL Camp #2.
- …and if you’re a bit further north on 20 October, you might want to consider the Vancouver JavaScript Developers’ meeting, which will cover WebGL and an intro to mobile JavaScript. (via Rita Turkowski)
- Not strictly WebGL, but if you’re beginning to learn about the maths required for 3D graphics, you’ll probably find these tutorials from Wolfire games a life-saver. 1, 2, 3, 4. They’ve only done 4 so far, I hope there are more to come.
- A nice particle demo from Cedric Pinson (worked for me in Minefield but not Chromium — that might just be my machine, though, as it works for Cedric on both).
- GLGE development goes on with leaps and bounds; the latest feature is points and lines.
- Ilmari Heikkinen has developed a prototype for an editor for WebGL presentations like his one mentioned here last week.
- …and on that subject, here’s another WebGL presentation in WebGL, from Dennis Ippel.
- A very high-resolution view of the Earth from Benjamin Blundell.
- Some simple WebGL demos that look like they might lead on to greater things — steps towards a Rails-based WebGL framework from Colin MacKenzie IV.
- A bit more information about the WebGLet framework I mentioned the other day, and a demo (warning — my current Minefield crashed viewing it, Chromium was fine)
- A preview video for what looks like an upcoming set of WebGL tutorials — impressive!
- These CubicVR demo screenshots also look pretty promising.
Tried http://www.oampo.co.uk/labs/fireflies/index.htm
No problems in 20101014 Firefox/4.0b8pre
ATI card, linux.
Also tried fireflies on an Intel GMA, firefox 4b6 without any problem.
About this crash — can you tell me your graphics card/driver and OS?
I’m strongly suspecting a driver issue
(Notice that on Windows, Chrome is using D3D via ANGLE while we are still using OpenGL, for which drivers are less good on Windows; we want to move to ANGLE soon, too)
http://plopbyte.net/webgl-particles-demo/
on Chromium gives me an error haven’t tried minefield.
Uncaught TypeError: Object # has no method ‘getProgramInfo’ from portfolio.plopbyte.net/wp-uploads/2010/demo-particles-osg-js/demo_particles.js:6532
It turns out that I can reproduce the crash on Windows only.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604658
OK, this is a bug that I already fixed… and forgot to land the fix. It will be fixed in tomorrow’s nightly.
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Benoit has kindly pointed out to me that Giles Thomas is the correct author of this blog. My sincerest apologies!
I think this is one of the best bits of community support I’ve ever experienced – my demo gets posted on a blog with a potential problem, three separate people test it, a bug gets filed and fixed all before I’ve even managed to download Minefield on Windows. Many thanks to all involved! I might start writing my todo list on here and letting you all work through it for me!