Mike Leonard The cache that doubled as a coordinator
The rendering engine is what visitors see. The data layer feeds it, and keeping it stable under load was the less glamorous half of the build. This is the second post in the ON Labs series. The first covered the WebGL engine: shaders, draw calls, the GPU-level stuff. This one is about what happens before a single pixel renders: fetching project data from an external API, caching it and making...
The rendering engine is what visitors see. The data layer feeds it, and keeping it stable under load was the less glamorous half of the build. This is the second post in the ON Labs series. The first...
Two months in Three.js, we started over
Two months into a Three.js prototype, the transition we wanted still wasn't there. We could see it in our heads and not on the screen. That was the moment we started over from scratch. Labs uses real-time shaders, physics-style interactions and transitions that happen at the GPU level. That behavior took roughly 6,000 lines of hand-written WebGL 2 and four months of iteration. We needed direct...
Two months into a Three.js prototype, the transition we wanted still wasn't there. We could see it in our heads and not on the screen. That was the moment we started over from scratch. Labs uses...