3D Canvas
By virtuelvis. Friday, 19. May 2006, 14:25:20
At this year's XTech conference, Opera's CTO Håkon Wium Lie did a demo of a hardware accelerated 3d canvas context, as illustrated by the screenshots from a 3d snake implementation done by our own Mathieu 'p01' HENRI
The implementation of the 3d canvas has existed internally for over a year, and shows that the browser is going in a very exciting direction. Soon, we hope to enable people like Benjamin Joffe to make his nice 3d demo even nicer.
Note that we are not the only ones that have been working on 3d in the browser, Vladimir Vukićević also demonstrated similar technology in Firefox at XTech. Synchronisity.
(And, oh, 3d snake is quite fun
)
The implementation of the 3d canvas has existed internally for over a year, and shows that the browser is going in a very exciting direction. Soon, we hope to enable people like Benjamin Joffe to make his nice 3d demo even nicer.
Note that we are not the only ones that have been working on 3d in the browser, Vladimir Vukićević also demonstrated similar technology in Firefox at XTech. Synchronisity.
(And, oh, 3d snake is quite fun
)
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By Jakub81, # 19. May 2006, 15:18:28
By Ramunas, # 19. May 2006, 15:23:27
I agree we should work hand in hand with Mozilla on a common and sound specification.
And if you're somewhat familiar with OpenGL and 2D Canvas, 3D Canvas is bless. It's really easy to use. Man, I love my job!
By p01, # 19. May 2006, 15:29:54
Congrats opera team!
By Guille, # 19. May 2006, 15:42:53
By sykora, # 19. May 2006, 16:51:08
By Benjamin Joffe, # 19. May 2006, 18:08:01
Jakub81: Actually, we've been discussing this stuff with Hakon after his talk, so, no need to fear
We're cooperate widely
By anonymous user, # 19. May 2006, 20:12:04
By JibberJim, # 19. May 2006, 20:43:57
By fx910, # 20. May 2006, 07:16:04
I hope this is going to be like a full 3d version of html, with hypertext links in 3d space, etc. and not just a Flash-like applet-ish thing!
By anonymous user, # 26. May 2006, 08:23:39
By Raumkraut, # 5. June 2006, 10:41:35
By Benjamin Joffe, # 7. June 2006, 08:57:52
I have in mind a killer "casual" web game that would use this extensively.
By whisperstorm, # 15. June 2006, 20:57:24
By AleksOD, # 7. September 2006, 20:59:50
By whisperstorm, # 3. October 2006, 18:45:42
thanks for your hard work
By creativemind, # 8. October 2006, 22:19:01
By Xavier Oddmon, # 21. December 2006, 03:37:53
I'm a fan of TRON and wanted to do something in that vibrant style. The shiny gradients are made with 2 textures. One for triangles, one for quads. Also the game runs well on my 3yo laptop.
By p01, # 3. January 2007, 12:42:34
By realitypixels, # 22. October 2007, 06:54:14
By Profesjonalna, # 28. December 2007, 21:41:21
Canvascape - "3D Walker" - good, really good
By Profnovice, # 3. June 2008, 11:22:42