Jellyfish - WebGL demo

This video shows back-end of my jellyfish WebGL demo. It shows some of its debug features, lighting controls etc. To view this demo live, get a modern browser such as Google Chrome 9 or Mozilla Firefox 4 and go to:

http://chrysaora.com/

Jellyfish are animated with simulated spring-chains. One part of the simulation runs on the server and the demo uses WebSocket communication to synchronize your browser with the server-side simulation.

This project will continue to evolve. If you want updates, follow my tweets
http://twitter.com/#!/aleksandarrodic

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• webgl
• demo
• simulation
• html5
• interactive
• websocket
• jellyfish

[jdheeter]

Hey I think you forgot to put a link in your description?

[aleksandarrodic]

@jdheeter Right. Thanks for pointing that out! :) Check it out now

[aleksandarrodic]

Its live now! Although I am still working on it. You can view it if you have WebGL capable browser. Chrome 9 or Firefox 4, for example. The link is in the description.

[jdheeter]

Fascinating. How heavy how many tris are being rendered when a full group are on screen? Also, how is the animation handled? some simple AI? Looking forward to trying this out when it is finished.

[aleksandarrodic]

@jdheeter

I dont know the total poly count... there is a dynamic LOD switching mechanism that saves some time on vertex operations by switching to lower LOD models depending on distance and size. Based on my testing experience, Vertex operations are the bottleneck for performance, then pixel fill rata and lastly javascript simulation. If I get some time, I will do detailed profiling but at this point I am happy with performance. It runs on android phone at 4 fps!

[Maestroshnitzel]

Good job, this is really cool.