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Re:Clock by tech-historian on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:22PM (#35621896)
His other stuff is amazing too. For example, this water scene. You can click inside the water to splash it around!

https://oimo.io/works/water3d/

Cloth is very cool too.

https://oimo.io/works/cloth/

Jelly: click on the sphere to tear it apart.

https://oimo.io/works/jelly/

Re:Clock by throitallaway on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:35PM (#35622018)
The Jelly one is super cool. I was hoping it would slowly assimilate back into its original form if you let it sit for a bit.
Re:Clock by zadler on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:51PM (#35622196)
That would be awesome. And you could control the speed of reassembly. These demos are quite cathartic.
Re:Clock by TacticalCoder on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @10:41PM (#35623642)
> I was hoping it would slowly assimilate back into its original form if you let it sit for a bit.

Same but then I found the reload button. I think my daughter is going to enjoy that "jelly" a lot!

Re:Clock by omneity on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @08:12PM (#35622414)
When I was younger, I was impressed by the technical feat of demos like this.

Nowadays, while still impressive, the technical mystery has faded somewhat. What's even more impressive to me though is the discipline, time and motivation management to deliver something of this caliber. Hats off!

Re:Clock by fsckboy on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @10:56PM (#35623751)
I agree, except when we were younger, these were also greater technical feats.

Back when VRML was trying to be a thing, I suggested "they" stop wasting their time on uber nerdy games with arcane controller patterns, and just produce a 3D window manager with really nice transitions to use for ordinary desktop things.

Re:Clock by omneity on Friday April 21, 2023 @06:14AM (#35651770)
VRML was definitely weird / ahead of its time. Reading about it at the time, and only having modest hardware, I was under the impression that the powerful machines back then could render VR in realtime. Heh 20+ years later and we're still not fully there yet.
Re:Clock by matthew28845 on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:02PM (#35622834)
Reminds me of <https://mrdoob.com>.
Re:Clock by rglover on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:32PM (#35623166)
That cloth one is a total acid trip. The physics are dead on.
Re:Clock by lxe on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:05AM (#35624769)
That infinite game of life... just wow!