Polygon Shredder

Re:Polygon Shredder by whichdan on Sunday February 07, 2016 @02:00PM (#11054199)

This is neat! And a caveat: the "INSANE" mode caused my 2010 MBP to lock up.

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Re:Polygon Shredder by spite on Sunday February 07, 2016 @02:48PM (#11054463)

Hence the "insane", it means 2048x2048 base particles. That's over 25 million triangles (or 75 million vertices) per pass, and it's done twice (color and shadow mapping). Also the curl noise is pretty expensive, and 2048x2048 is quite a lot of operations. I think the browser locks before being able to allocate all necessary info, and if it does, probably the GPU can't keep up. Not everyone's card can push that much, but I've seen people getting to 4096!

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Re:Polygon Shredder by inDigiNeous on Sunday February 07, 2016 @04:23PM (#11054917)

Hard locked my old Mac Mini. Had to reboot. Not your fault, but maybe add some limits.

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Re:Polygon Shredder by stop1234 on Monday February 08, 2016 @02:19AM (#11056781)

Had to reboot my modern day souped up mac. Funny how simple it is to freeze a system....

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Re:Polygon Shredder by reimertz on Sunday February 07, 2016 @02:02PM (#11054210)

Caveat or.. AWESOME?!

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