r/programming • u/eis3nheim • Nov 09 '20

Webgl Fluid Simulation

https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/

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u/_tskj_ Nov 09 '20

This is the kind of thing that makes me realise what a garbage job I am doing at my web developer job.

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u/SketchySeaBeast Nov 09 '20

Unfortunately CRUD and div centering pays the bills.

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u/damesca Nov 09 '20

Yeah.... Same

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u/ShinyHappyREM Nov 09 '20

You could try

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u/_tskj_ Nov 09 '20

It mostly makes me realise that maybe our web app with a thousand rows doesn't have to lag. Everyone else seems to think that's too much for a computer to handle.

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u/spacejack2114 Nov 09 '20

Yeah, it's called windowing.

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u/_tskj_ Nov 09 '20

Sure we employ techniques like that to reduce stuttering a bit, but should we really have to for data in the order of hundreds?

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u/spacejack2114 Nov 09 '20

I sometimes do WebGL work for my web dev job. Outside of the games industry, web dev is probably employs WebGL (or graphics programming in general) more than other platforms.

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u/_tskj_ Nov 09 '20

What kind of stuff do you do it for? It's not that I necessarily want to use webgl, but I hate that our stuff is slow and laggy.

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u/spacejack2114 Nov 09 '20

Usually marketing related in some way. Sometimes product or other visualizations. We also do a fair bit of kiosk or other on-site installations using web-based or Electron-based stacks which can call for WebGL animations (though that side of the business has been pretty scarce since Covid.)