My understanding of the OpenGL specs is that you don't even need a GPU to meet the spec. You only need have the functions implemented and meet some conformance tests. So you could have a pure software implementation that would be slow but could meet the spec. The original Mesa was like that. Cell phone processors have advanced to where I'm sure many cell phones will beat my old macbook on WebGL.
Ed __________ Ed Angel Chair, Board of Directors, Santa Fe Complex Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) [email protected] 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel http://artslab.unm.edu http://sfcomplex.org On May 24, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Indeed, not quite ready for prime time. The webgl spec is a month old! > > Also, as I look into more GPU facts, one is that on some machines it works > poorly. I believe, for example, on my MBA, there is a stunt where the GPU > graphics memory is really part of the main RAM, thus the GPU is less > efficient, .. and hotter. > > But it is really surprising how fast HTML5 and WebGL are improving every day. > And believe it or not, that slide set will work on many modern phones. > > -- Owen > > On May 24, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: > >> I went through the presentation in FF - nice! >> Chrome tried. Safari and Opera just did text slides. (It might have said >> these were problems) >> Meanwhile my Macbook Pro is now red hot. Hmmm. NRFPT. Or maybe I'm missing >> something. >> Thanks Owen. >> Robert >>> Mind blowing! A slide set done in webgl! >>> http://fhtr.org/webgl_presentation.html >>> >>> -- Owen >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >>> >>> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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