Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station

Re:Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor o... by rhn_mk1 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:52PM (#33614103)

Funny, while listening to my laptop's fan going crazy I was thinking that any computer from 2000 would have enough power to render this if it was native :P

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Re:Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor o... by joan_kode on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:32PM (#33615325)

I can absolutely make a native version that's considerably less efficient than this one.

And yes, a more efficient browser version is possible (and possibly simpler). People like to fixate on platforms, but it's all about implementation.

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Re:Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor o... by jacobsenscott on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:14PM (#33615827)

Sure - also on your computer from 2000 the fans would be on all the time time, one fan would have a bad bearing, and the HD would literally be making a crunching sound, and you would constantly be cleaning gunk off the mouse ball.

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Re:Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor o... by cseleborg on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @03:05AM (#33620288)

Oh, what satisfaction there was in removing the gunk off the mouse's spinning rods!

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Re:Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor o... by gpderetta on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:26AM (#33621505)

Move to a trackball and you can still have that fun today!

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