Flat Surface Shader

[skrebbel]

This is lovely, but it mostly just reminds me of how I can't wait until WebGL is so commonplace that we can finally ditch all that HTML/CSS nonsense.

[kh_hk]

    > HTML/CSS nonsense

Structured and well declared markup is no joke. If you actually refer to the common "hacks" to get demos and eye-candy stuff working, then I do agree. On the contrary, if you refer to ditching all HTML and CSS in favor of WebGL, then we're fucked.

[pdknsk]

This is probably a bit OT, but it makes me sad that flat shading as an art style has been abandoned in games. Ever since pixel shaders and normal maps gave us shiny plastic-y objects, developers haven't looked back.

[lifeformed]

Here's the lighting style of our current project: http://hitboxteam.tumblr.com/image/42563981451

[seanmcdirmid]

I added a crumpled paper effect to a web browser once, the result was very cool:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sean_mcdirmid/archive/2009/07/27/a-w...

I'm not sure if it was useful though.

[ch0wn]

It blows my mind that I can switch between the three different renderers without dropping a noticing a single framedrop. I had to open the devtools and verify that there is actually a change happening to believe it.

[sbarre]

On my iMac, switching between renderers definitely caused a "hiccup", and SVG was very slow on Chrome, but it looked great in all 3.

[sciencerobot]

> I love WebGL, but unfortunately it doesn't work everywhere.

What is meant by that? WebGL does seem to work here as in the appearance and frame rate are the same compared to SVG but with less CPU usage on my machine/browser (Chrome).

[nxn]

I think the author means that it's not implemented in all the browsers that have a significant share of the browser market.

[ssiddharth]

Everything renders incredibly smoothly on my setup. And I'm learning all sorts of nifty tricks via the source. Thanks for making this!

[sheng]

it looks quite nice but unfortunately I guess it's by far too power hungry. My GTX 560's fan went up.

[troels]

Your GPU powered up? I would assume this renders in CPU, so that's a bit strange.

[arcameron]

I'm very impressed by this! Awesome work, congratz on the outcome!

I think WebGL has a lot of potential, feel free to check out my hackish background bump mapping @

http://anthonycameron.com/lab/background-bumps

[Detrus]

Can you do this easily with three.js? Can this library work with three.js?