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Hmm, interesting, but it is from 2019 with barely any news about hex since, there is not a single link to download/try the actual thing, and the index page of https://ivanish.ca/ is terribly slow on Firefox ( please try your fancy animated sites on Firefox and various browsers before publishing them, this one is extremely slow on really powerful hardware)

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Yeah, you're right about FF chugging on that homepage. I had added a bit of dynamic LOD that attempts to drop quality if the frame rate goes to shit, but that can only help so much. Canvas 2D in FF has more perf cliffs than in the other browsers, in my experience. I'm hoping to learn WebGPU and build some new playful visuals in that, which with any luck should run better on FF.

FWIW, I do test in FF as I work, and it's important to me to make things work well for everyone everywhere... but it's all tradeoffs.

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