Looks like it is a javascript day here at *drawlogic. Here is an interesting example with some demos of a javascript and canvas based pseudo 3d engine. Anything this cool you know it has to be from Japan.
Also of note, it has been rumored that Silverlight 3 will have fully hardware accelerated 3d and canvas and javascript engines are getting much faster with great demos like this. Adobe needs to leap into hardware acceleration for flash on a broader scale soon.
But I digress, this demo it appears, was inspired by Papervision3D due to the naming and the javascript reference of “parpevision.js“. I wasn’t able to find much more information about this but it is very well done and this example even shows some environment mapping. It is not close to flash pseudo-3d engines like Papervision3D yet but at the rate of javascript engine development lately this could rival flash AVM2 in the next couple of years.
Demos
Code
- Sample iPod iTouch Mesh data (meshdata.js) – contains models
- Code from the main engine (parpevision.js)
- Sample Viewport and main app (touch.js from demo 3)
Here is the code for the parpevision.js file and the mini engine, it is an MIT license. (more…)
