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Dear ps, let's make a HTML5 videoclip about it.

with CSS3 animations only!

how dare you?

Sucks. Doesn't work on my Netscape 4.

Thanks for summing it up quite well!

:D

Scene drama can start.

uhm.. is it really that special?

ps: I don't see any "best demo technology" anywhere.

I completely agree with Puryx though. It's good, but is it really that special?

Decipher: "best demo *of* technology [everyone will be using in 2012]", namely WebGL. So far yes it is arguably (one of) the best demo of it.

puryx, decipher: only if you care how your browser experience will look in the future.

Well... "care" is a difficult word - don't get me wrong, I really like the content, however I don't see too much special about it browser-tech-wise - I guess we have been able to see video+3d+other effects in a browser for quite some years now (yes, requires a "plugin", but still... )

Indeed, it's a perfect summary - cool technology on the internet isn't reasoning enough for putting it on Pouet. It isn't a demo, it isn't made by a demoscene group (or demosceners - one out of 113 doesn't count). I fail grasp what's so hard to understand about that.

What gloom said.

Plus this "prod" DDoSed my Eee with NVidia gpu using the Canary build of Chrome : \ also there it's not a size contest but I'm slightly underwhelmed by the 547 KB main.min.js

However, what I saw in the video version is by far the best webGL prod so far. ... would be a shame with such a big and pro team.

@p01: What's wrong with 547KB main.min.js?

MrDoob: it could have been 4k... not? :)

MrDoob: It tingles my size-optimizer sense.

You joked about 64kb on the Twitters, well ... I'm sure that with a bit of effort it ( the code ) could fit in 64kb. But I totally understand that it was absolutely not the goal of this project and that there was much more constraint coming from many other sides/aspects of the project.

i think the whole RO.ME thing is crap. i mean the idea is okayish, the music is good but the execution is bad. motivational pig for effort :)

it's nice to see that web-demos can be something else than flash or ugly javascript scrollers; but the technology is still opengl and as such not really a new thingie :)

no news there.

ps: Feel free to try to explain it (but preferably in a non-insulting, actually understandable way).

demoscene is yellow

interesting technology is cyan

you should be making the top scenario become the bottom one.
you're doing the opposite and fail to acknowledge it.

ps: so exactly how I feel then. The only difference is the venue of where this interaction is happening, and as Pouet exists today, with the current prod-system, this is not the place. Nobody is forcing sceners to shun away from new technologies or platforms, in fact they are exploring them (and have, since the beginnings of the scene).

Just to make it perfectly clear: of course Rome belongs on Pouet, but as a piece for discussion in the forums, not as a "Demo" by "Google".

Competition rules however limit the type of technology one can use. (interaction, networking, distributed computing are not accepted afaik)

I enjoyed watching this, thanks!

About the platform, I think webgl + javascript (in the state they are today) just isn't good enough to be taken seriously as a demo platform. That damn garbage collection for example... really annoying. (Is there any way to tweak my browser settings to improve on this?) Google native client + ogl would be a better browser platform for demo execution I think.