Back in 2010, this "require[d] a decent graphics card"
Now, my phone's integrated graphics can run it very smoothly. Moore's law at play.
qoez 12 days ago [-]
I remember this running well on a low end macbook pro back then.
ghkbrew 12 days ago [-]
Here I am running just fine on a 3 year old phone
corysama 12 days ago [-]
Everyone forgets what machines are capable of if you actually optimize. This game did everything shown here in real time on phones 14 years ago https://youtu.be/JDvPIhCd8N4
TXCSwe 11 days ago [-]
Have you heard of KKrieger? So yeah, if you optimize enough, machines can do quite cool stuff!
atiedebee 10 days ago [-]
I think KKrieger required pretty beefy specs for the time. It's a different kind of optimization they were aiming for (code size Vs execution speed)
Although a friend of mine ran it on an integrated intel GPU recently and it performed great.
throw310822 12 days ago [-]
It's running fine (not too smoothly but ok) on my 8 years old Xiaomi MI6.
moffkalast 12 days ago [-]
My old phone is running it at exactly Uncaught Error: This demo requires the OES_texture_float extension fps
chris_pie 11 days ago [-]
Same on a not-old Pixel 8
throw310822 11 days ago [-]
Works well for me even on a 50€ (fifty euro!) chinese tablet I bought a few weeks ago.
ashoeafoot 12 days ago [-]
The in suit battery driven hamdwarmer he invented it!
Exuma 12 days ago [-]
This is my most voted submission. This thing literally never gets old
larodi 12 days ago [-]
Demoscene never gets old, but why we get then so little submissions of it here? Demoscene reifies the creative-hacking culture, is it not?
a1371 12 days ago [-]
Be the change you want to see
Exuma 12 days ago [-]
Here is a trick: pause the simulation and drag the ripples back and forth really fast, it will create a "mega" wave. Then unpause and it will create a massive tsunami
quantadev 12 days ago [-]
Or pause it and click the water surface 100 times to raise up a lot of potential energy that makes a very profound wave front when it comes down when you start it.
90s_dev 12 days ago [-]
On this note, can anyone recommend basic webgl 2d effects tutorial? I have a super exciting project I'm really close to announcing, but the last step is adding some pretty Animal Well style effects via webgl2, but I know practically nothing about webgl except the very very basics that you learn from webgl2fundamentals.org. Any pointers would be appreciated.
kaesve 12 days ago [-]
I like https://thebookofshaders.com/ . It’s unfinished and I don’t think it’s been updated in years, but what’s there is pretty good
jonplackett 12 days ago [-]
I second this! Shame it’s still not finished though. I did this tutorial like 5 years ago
felipellrocha 12 days ago [-]
Webgl2fundamentals is pretty great :)
akomtu 12 days ago [-]
shadertoy.com
vhcr 12 days ago [-]
The "problem" with it is that you only learn about fragment shaders, you should also learn about the WebGL API, and vertex shaders.
dahart 12 days ago [-]
Not having to learn the API & vertex shaders is definitely a feature of ShaderToy, not a problem. :P The extremely low barrier to entry to writing shaders is one of it’s best qualities. Anyway, the question asked about 2d effects, so they maybe don’t need vertex shaders, and they can of course learn the small amount of WebGL API needed somewhere else like https://webgl2fundamentals.org/.
I can't wait to dig in and figure out how to add effects like this over my 2d content!
dahart 12 days ago [-]
It’s super easy. ShaderToy draws a rectangle on the screen and runs the given shader on it. There’s a small amount of plumbing to wire in a few variables like time & mouse position, and your texture coordinates. The rendering part of ShaderToy is simple enough that you can make your own clone in a day. The rest of the site is the hard part, the editor, the API & saving shaders in the cloud, getting lots of people to write awesome shaders, etc., but the rendering part is near trivial.
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chrisjj 12 days ago [-]
"Uncaught Error: This demo requires the OES_texture_float extension
WebGL Water
Made by Evan Wallace
This demo requires a decent graphics card and up-to-date drivers. If you can't run the demo, you can still see it on YouTube.
Interactions:
Draw on the water to make ripples
Drag the background to rotate the camera
Press SPACEBAR to pause and unpause
Drag the sphere to move it around
Press the L key to set the light direction
Press the G key to toggle gravity
Features:
Raytraced reflections and refractions
Analytic ambient occlusion
Heightfield water simulation *
Soft shadows
Caustics (see this for details) *
* requires the OES_texture_float extension
* requires the OES_standard_derivatives extension" on Android Chrome.
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asadm 12 days ago [-]
Wasnt this one of the demo that Figma co-founder used make a case for web-based editor?
fulafel 12 days ago [-]
This is probably the first time (not counting ignored times) it was been posted which doesn't have comments about breakage on some browser.
Makes you wonder how long it takes that WebGPU reaches the same status.
kelnos 12 days ago [-]
I see three such comments, all posted before you posted. Oh well. I'd hoped you were right about this.
fulafel 12 days ago [-]
Ah, I didn't reload before writing the comment. Oh well.
Retr0id 12 days ago [-]
This has always been my "is webgl working?" test page
Retr0id 12 days ago [-]
By the way, I think it's (2011) not (2010)
notarealllama 12 days ago [-]
Still. My god.
pjmlp 12 days ago [-]
After all these years, Android Chrome still doesn't support the extensions required by this demo, this is the issue with Web 3D adoption.
ankit_mishra 12 days ago [-]
Same for me on.
Getting this error - Uncaught Error: This demo requires the OES_texture_float extension
WebGL Water
Using -
Chrome 136.0.7103.87
Android 15;
throw310822 12 days ago [-]
Works fine for me.
pjmlp 12 days ago [-]
Actually, I just cross-checked on WebGL Report, and it does indeed support the extension, not that changes having a black page complaining the extension is missing.
bobajeff 12 days ago [-]
I guess I'm the only one for whom this doesn't work I get:
'Uncaught Error: This demo requires the OES_texture_float extension'
Yeah, not surprising this guy went on to build Figma! Super cool
[1] https://medium.com/figma-design/rust-in-production-at-figma-...
[2] https://medium.com/figma-design/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-...
Now, my phone's integrated graphics can run it very smoothly. Moore's law at play.
Although a friend of mine ran it on an integrated intel GPU recently and it performed great.
... this is amazing!
I can't wait to dig in and figure out how to add effects like this over my 2d content!
This demo requires a decent graphics card and up-to-date drivers. If you can't run the demo, you can still see it on YouTube.
Interactions: Draw on the water to make ripples Drag the background to rotate the camera Press SPACEBAR to pause and unpause Drag the sphere to move it around Press the L key to set the light direction Press the G key to toggle gravity Features: Raytraced reflections and refractions Analytic ambient occlusion Heightfield water simulation * Soft shadows Caustics (see this for details) * * requires the OES_texture_float extension * requires the OES_standard_derivatives extension" on Android Chrome.
Makes you wonder how long it takes that WebGPU reaches the same status.
Using - Chrome 136.0.7103.87 Android 15;
'Uncaught Error: This demo requires the OES_texture_float extension'
Ironically Chrome was also the only browser that supported it without beta flags, looks like their mobile version never caught up.
Something I noticed is that you can’t make perturbations on the surface of the water by rapidly moving the ball beneath the water.
Don’t have time to dig into the sim to know why, but that is a monitor flaw.
Later edit: ah, looks like rendering was the focus not sim, per the maker’s website.
Why?