WebGL questine
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- Continuity
So I've got a large-format banner job to do, promoting a microsite on which there's a transparent glass-like plane.
My idea is to have this glass plane fly across the screen on a transparent div with the live site visible behind it ... however, I'd like that live site to look distorted as the glass passes over it.
Possible using WebGL or not?
- monNom0
I'm going to say no. AFAIK webgl needs to live within a canvas element, so unless you can re-render the website faithfully at full screen within the canvas, you might be out of luck. You could sub in a screenshot image, but you'd need to do it on a per-site basis, so potentially a headache.
Is webgl that well supported these days?
- Continuity0
Thanks for the quick reply.
I don't know that it is that well supported yet, but it would have been a cool way to experiment with the technology.
- chrisRG0
^ Agree.
And if you find a way you'd be limited to the last version of Chrome/Safari/FF, not even the iPad would support.
- animatedgif0
Would you like to see a banner like that?
Nah you'd find it annoying wouldn't you.
- <10 seconds? I think it'd be a neat thing to see.Continuity
- *less than* 10 secondsContinuity
- No... no it really wouldn't be.
Banners are not the place for creativity, they're the place for shitting it out and paying the billsanimatedgif - bills $£$£$£$£$£$£$$£$£$£...animatedgif
- jadrian_uk0
no need of GL for this!!! do it with canvas, vector web graphics, ex: http://raphaeljs.com/
- jadrian is right! no need for webGL 2d canvas would be better for the animation... not sure about the capture.kingsteven
- *no need for webGL (full stop) 2d canvaskingsteven