Jellyfish Simulation using Javascript, WebGL

Re:Jellyfish Simulation using Javascript, WebGL by prewett on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @02:32PM (#2467774)

Looks really cool! Not having much experience with oceans, it's a little weird to see the jellyfish swimming sideways; I'm assuming they mostly swim "up"?

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Re:Jellyfish Simulation using Javascript, WebGL by sambeau on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @03:22PM (#2467998)

If they only swam up they would soon run out of sea!

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Re:Jellyfish Simulation using Javascript, WebGL by prewett on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @06:47PM (#2468712)

:) I was assuming sort of an up-and-sideways kind of up, and maybe they sink down when they hit the top and go up-and-sideways again. Jellyfish just don't seem like the right-angles-to-the-surface sort of swimmers to me, but like I say, I have no experience with jellyfish, not even seeing them on nature shows.

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Re:Jellyfish Simulation using Javascript, WebGL by zacharycohn on Thursday April 21, 2011 @01:40AM (#2469571)

As someone who has swam through jellyfish, they totally swim sideways.

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Re:Jellyfish Simulation using Javascript, WebGL by niels_olson on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @08:59PM (#2469049)

which is usually exactly what they do. Go to Boston Harbor in the summer.

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