[okfn-discuss] WebGL (Was: Re: Hello! :-))

[Vitor Baptista]

Very cool visualisations, thanks for the link! :-)

2012/7/12 Hector Vergara R. <hvergara at gmail.com>

> Vitor,
>
> Also there's some experiments and libraries from Nicolas García Belmonte,
> who created the Javascript InfoViz Toolkit (jit) and now he's developing
> PhiloGL (http://philogb.github.com/philogl).
>
> See some cool dataviz examples on http://philogb.github.com/
>
> People from Vizzuality (http://vizzuality.com/) also has some experiments
> w/ dataviz using WebGL for mapping
> http://vizzuality.github.com/HTML5-experiments/
>
> Best, Héctor.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Ben O'Steen <bosteen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://glsl.heroku.com is a nice sandbox for testing and playing with
>> glsl shaders and effects. There is a lot you can do with CSS3, and it may
>> be enough for many visualisations.
>>
>> (A potentially useful side-effect of learning WebGL is that it is quite
>> similar to OpenGL ES 2.0, which is common on phone/mobile hardware and also
>> implemented by the RaspberryPi.)
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, 12 July 2012, Vitor Baptista wrote:
>>
>>> (moving to okfn-labs)
>>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> 2012/7/11 elf Pavlik <perpetual-tripper at wwelves.org>
>>>
>>>> RoR, js, c++ sounds nice! since you have mentioned visualisation i
>>>> wonder if you have any xp with WebGL?
>>>> but maybe we should move such conversation to okfn-labs ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I haven't played with WebGL yet. I've seen some interesting demos, but
>>> none for data visualisation. Has someone done anything with it? And/or know
>>> a cool vis? :-)
>>>
>>> I feel that there's so much you can do with CSS3 that only the most
>>> funky visualisations will need to rely on WebGL.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>> Vítor.
>>>
>>>
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