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Re:A remake of the Windows pipes screensaver using Three.js by andrepd on Sunday November 22, 2015 @12:33PM (#10610719)
It's running at 15fps in my browser. I remember the original ran at 60Hz 15 years ago in a computer a couple orders of magnitude slower.
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Re:A remake of the Windows pipes screensaver using Three.js by pcwalton on Sunday November 22, 2015 @01:26PM (#10610879)
Buggy GPU drivers weren't an issue back then with software implementations of OpenGL.
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Re:A remake of the Windows pipes screensaver using Three.js by untog on Sunday November 22, 2015 @04:25PM (#10611555)
Then there is something wrong with your machine.
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Re:A remake of the Windows pipes screensaver using Three.js by DiThi on Sunday November 22, 2015 @03:42PM (#10611421)
I bet the original didn't redraw the whole thing and only the part that was added in that frame. Probably using a Z-buffer.
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