What does HackerNews think of three.js?

It's using Three.js[^1] with Photons[^2], and a number of other interesting libraries for calculation like satellite-js[^3].

[1]: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

[2]: https://github.com/mkkellogg/Photons

[3]: https://github.com/shashwatak/satellite-js

constexpr - Cool project!

For those of us with slow internet connections please change your Makefile to use a shallow clone:

``` github/three: mkdir -p github git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js.git github/three -b r108 cd github/three && git checkout r108 ```

This would save a couple of gigs and hours in download.

Just skimming your code I see variable mangling but no AST optimizations, is that correct? Which is odd because you show similar output sizes to the JS bundlers.

The github project page has a bit more info than the threejs.org website.

It is a relatively small JavaScript library for creating and rendering 3D scene graphs in a browser. It enables you to code while thinking of scenes and the objects within them, rather than GPU buffers and what to put in them.

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

Ok. Found it, https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/tree/master/editor doesn't say, but https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/ says MIT

It's a good question. I have an entire bookmark folder of "cool WebGL demos" collected over the years, but have seen very few full-fledged applications.

One way you could hedge the WebGL vs. Canvas bet is to use something like THREE.js, where you use THREE's cameras, lighting, etc and then specify whether it should use WebGL or Canvas for rendering. But then again, you'd be betting on THREE.js :)

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

Lets take a look at two repos on sourceforge and github:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc/

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js

They serve entirely different purposes. Sourceforge looks like a sales page, listing features and downloads. Gitub has the contents of the source right there at the top, before the readme or description, even!

Github seems to be focused on developers, while sourceforge is like a download portal for open source software.

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/ - That should get you going. Download that and take a look at all the examples and how they are made. Here is a good book on webgl too - http://www.amazon.com/WebGL-Up-Running-Tony-Parisi/dp/144932...

If you dont know OpenGL already you might be better starting with a library like Three.js: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js

The point is both Adobe and the W3C are guessing. Think how much faster we could advance if it was put in the hands of the community. A community that constantly implements, gets feedback, re-implements, collaborates. You only have to look at three.js (https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/) and similar to get an idea of what can be built on a low-level API.

[Edit: guessing, not second-guessing]

Thanks! I used Three.JS for the 3d rendering, Rails for the rest. Good idea on the click/drag UI, I'll think about that for v2!

Three.JS: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

WebGL makes it really easy for anyone to start now: http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?page_id=1217?

You can also see the framework Three.Js[1], which Mr. Doob used/created on his Google Colabs[2]

[1] https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js

[2] http://www.ro.me/tech/

don't know about 3d/canvas in paper.js, but you should check out three.js, which does do 3d on canvas: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

When I say "in most situations" my implication is that for most 3D applications in the browser such low level interaction with the 3D API is not necessary. Most people building things with WebGL in the future will not be working with WebGL directly, but through an abstraction layer like three.js[1]. This could easily be extended to use Flash as an alternate renderer (say, for people running IE).

[1] https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js has 900+ followers on github, by far the biggest project from my initial analysis.