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cdancette
This is cool, but why is there a huge blank disk in the scene ? Couldn't it be made transparent?
royjacobs
That's the light source, I suppose.
tudorw
yes, if you place it 'behind' you, the cubes are nicely lit. This is lovely, if you have a decent GPU it flies along !
shiven
Flies on an iPhone 6S!
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ocfnash
I think that disc-ish object is the light source, which I suppose is rendered to make it clear why one side of a polygon is dark while the other is bright etc.
cfontes
Make it a screensaver!
actionscripted
I have no idea how well it would run or what the process for this might be. Could you use a web view to get a sort-of-working version built quickly?

Edit: in my old days I would just convert the JS to ActionScript and drop it into Flash to generate an SWF for use as a screensaver. :)

bobajeff
This is cool it runs very well on my phone.
cr0sh
Amazingly it runs really well on a standard MBP with Intel graphics (under Chrome 62); though if you choose "insane" mode it chokes hard.
AdmiralAsshat
Looks like if I click to pause, rotate the camera, then resume, the camera jumps back to where it was when I paused.

It would be cool if it could resume the animation state at the camera's current position.

[dead] frozenport
Dont't see anything on mobile (Fifefox).
oliv__
I think I just got ADHD