This is the coolest thing I've seen using canvas so far:

http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape/


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From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>
To: Yeti <yeti@myhich.com>
Cc: PHP - General <php-general@lists.php.net>
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:08:30 +0100
Subject: Re: [php] Re: HTML5 canvas tag

> On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 14:50 -0700, Yeti wrote:
> > I'm not very familiar with the whole thing yet but after looking at
> > your site I find it quite interesting.
> > So is it possible to render 3d vector based objects in the canvas and
> > if so an entire 3d based website?
> > Are there any 3d libraries yet like OpenGL for applications?
> > It would be quite handy to describe 3d/2d objects or styles with a
> > language like CSS. Do you think that will be possible in the near
> > future?
> >
> > A yeti.
> >
> The best thing I've seen so far for 3D on the web is Papervision. It's
> Flash based, but the donkey work is in Actionscript 3.
>
> The best thing I've seen so far in terms of what it's capable of is
> probably http://lab.zupko.info/reflection/realz/ which is displaying
> real-time reflections for an X-wing starfighter on some sort of ice cube
> mirror. You have to see it to understand it. It's also damn fast as
> libraries go.
>
>
> Ash
> www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
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On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 18:08 -0400, TG wrote:
> This is the coolest thing I've seen using canvas so far:
>
> http://www.abrahamjoffe.com.au/ben/canvascape/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>
> To: Yeti <yeti@myhich.com>
> Cc: PHP - General <php-general@lists.php.net>
> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:08:30 +0100
> Subject: Re: [php] Re: HTML5 canvas tag
>
> > On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 14:50 -0700, Yeti wrote:
> > > I'm not very familiar with the whole thing yet but after looking at
> > > your site I find it quite interesting.
> > > So is it possible to render 3d vector based objects in the canvas and
> > > if so an entire 3d based website?
> > > Are there any 3d libraries yet like OpenGL for applications?
> > > It would be quite handy to describe 3d/2d objects or styles with a
> > > language like CSS. Do you think that will be possible in the near
> > > future?
> > >
> > > A yeti.
> > >
> > The best thing I've seen so far for 3D on the web is Papervision. It's
> > Flash based, but the donkey work is in Actionscript 3.
> >
> > The best thing I've seen so far in terms of what it's capable of is
> > probably http://lab.zupko.info/reflection/realz/ which is displaying
> > real-time reflections for an X-wing starfighter on some sort of ice cube
> > mirror. You have to see it to understand it. It's also damn fast as
> > libraries go.
> >
> >
> > Ash
> > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
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> >
That's cool! It is a little slow though, speed is not half as good as
Papervision.

I don't know why, but that works for me yet the graph doesn't.


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk