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Offline agmg

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100,000 Stars - Chrome Experiments
« on: November 20, 2012, 03:32:56 AM »
About Chrome Experiments

We think JavaScript is awesome. We also think browsers are awesome. Together, they can do some beautiful, magical, crazy things. And that’s why we created this website.

Chrome Experiments is a showcase for creative web experiments, the vast majority of which are built with the latest open technologies, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. All of them were made and submitted by talented artists and programmers from around the world.

We hope the projects on this site provide inspiration for anyone interested in experimenting creatively with the web. And we hope they show how the web has become faster, more fun, and more open – the same spirit in which we built Google Chrome.

All of the work here is user-submitted, so naturally we’re looking for more. If you've made something fun and fast in JavaScript, please send it in. We can't post everything, but we'd love to see it.

Thanks for visiting, and happy experimenting.

100,000 Stars WebGL experiment

From the author:
100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. It shows the real location of over 100,000 nearby stars. Zooming in reveals 87 major named stars and our solar system. The galaxy view is an artist's rendition.

Explore it here: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/100000-stars/
« Last Edit: November 20, 2012, 03:34:55 AM by agmg »
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Re: 100,000 Stars - Chrome Experiments
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2012, 03:46:07 AM »
Cool! Thanks agmg

Not sure if it looks/plays better in Chrome but it's playing fine in Firefox 16.02

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Re: 100,000 Stars - Chrome Experiments
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2012, 03:57:06 AM »
Quote from: menotu on November 20, 2012, 03:46:07 AM
Cool! Thanks agmg

Not sure if it looks/plays better in Chrome but it's playing fine in Firefox 16.02

Firefox user here too :) I guess every browser that supports the technologies used in the experiment can play it without problem.
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Re: 100,000 Stars - Chrome Experiments
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2012, 04:50:09 AM »
That was fascinating! Thanks for the link, agmg.  ;)
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Re: 100,000 Stars - Chrome Experiments
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2012, 06:16:18 AM »
Quote from: agmg on November 20, 2012, 03:57:06 AM
Quote from: menotu on November 20, 2012, 03:46:07 AM
Cool! Thanks agmg

Not sure if it looks/plays better in Chrome but it's playing fine in Firefox 16.02

Firefox user here too :) I guess every browser that supports the technologies used in the experiment can play it without problem.

It plays very well in Opera if you first enable hardware acceleration and WebGL. (Neither is enabled by default.)
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Re: 100,000 Stars - Chrome Experiments
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2012, 06:35:33 AM »
Beautiful!!

Thank you agmg
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Re: 100,000 Stars - Chrome Experiments
« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2012, 06:40:49 AM »
You are all welcome :)
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Re: 100,000 Stars - Chrome Experiments
« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2012, 12:00:46 PM »
No go on this machine, I'm afraid. Says my graphics card doesn't support OpenGL. Odd, KDE is using it.
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