top | item 5521602 (no title) nmz787 | 13 years ago Seems like the smart thing would be pushing rendering to the client. This is already done in real-time for coarse and simple models like PDB. discuss order hn newest kanzure|13 years ago > smart thing would be pushing rendering to the clientThey seem to be doing precisely that:"This viewer is powered by Three.js and uses WebGL when available, but will fall back to the slower canvas renderer." nickpinkston|13 years ago Yea, but good luck having a browser-based B-Rep kernel or some such. Seems like GrabCAD, etc. are doing back-end processing -> polygons in the browser using three.js, etc. load replies (1)
kanzure|13 years ago > smart thing would be pushing rendering to the clientThey seem to be doing precisely that:"This viewer is powered by Three.js and uses WebGL when available, but will fall back to the slower canvas renderer." nickpinkston|13 years ago Yea, but good luck having a browser-based B-Rep kernel or some such. Seems like GrabCAD, etc. are doing back-end processing -> polygons in the browser using three.js, etc. load replies (1)
nickpinkston|13 years ago Yea, but good luck having a browser-based B-Rep kernel or some such. Seems like GrabCAD, etc. are doing back-end processing -> polygons in the browser using three.js, etc. load replies (1)
kanzure|13 years ago
They seem to be doing precisely that:
"This viewer is powered by Three.js and uses WebGL when available, but will fall back to the slower canvas renderer."
nickpinkston|13 years ago