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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.

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kanzure|13 years ago

> smart thing would be pushing rendering to the client

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

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.