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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
