On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Andrey Novoseltsev <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 March 2015 20:22:29 UTC-6, William wrote:
>>
>>
>> I think THREE.js and webgl have much more potential than the
>> javascript based jmol.
>>
>
> Perhaps, but despite of all its issues, JSmol
> - works reasonably well on computers not supporting webgl (probably not
> important for those concentrating on US, but I imagine in the rest of the
> world people still may use oldish computers and buying a modern one is not
> an option),

THREE.js falls back to canvas rendering when webgl isn't available.
How can jsmol be faster than canvas?   (I'm not saying it isn't -- it
just seems to me that it should be about the same.)

> - is consistent between different browsers and platforms (I am yet to see it
> produce different output for the same code, while three.js keeps surprising
> me, like today it just stopped working in Firefox for no clear reason),

I'm curious -- was this the fault of three.js or something else (e.g.,
my code) built on top of three.js?  Were you using it in SageMathCloud
or somewhere else?

> - has no problems with partially transparent surfaces,

Yes, this is a problem for three.js with webgl (but not with canvas).

> - has no issues with lines of fixed width,

Surely that's not impossible to fix...?

> - is the prettiest plotter available in Sage.

That may very well be.

>
> Andrey
>
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