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Re: LDView browser plugin?
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:26:41 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev, Reuben Pearse wrote:
> > A possible starting place for this kind of project might be tapping into the new
> > WebGL capabilities of Firefox and Chrome (and hopefully once things have
> > standardized, other browsers as well).
> > 
> > See the following link for examples of WebGL in action:
> > http://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Demo_Repository
> > (these demos require Firefox 4 with WebGL enabled to work)
> 
> I agree that this seems a good fit for WebGL, but there is one problem.
> LDraw.org is FAR too slow to serve up the part files for a web-based viewer
> without driving the user crazy.  A plugin could install a local copy of the
> parts library.
> 
> --Travis


Yes, I forgot about the parts library. That would definitely pose a difficulty.


-Mike



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  Re: LDView browser plugin?
 
(...) I agree that this seems a good fit for WebGL, but there is one problem. LDraw.org is FAR too slow to serve up the part files for a web-based viewer without driving the user crazy. A plugin could install a local copy of the parts library. (...) (16 years ago, 24-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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