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As far as I can tell this uses WebGL, I wonder if you could get these results just as easily using WebGPU

Yup, I use github.com/oframe/ogl, which makes webgl a bit mor usable for the average programmer. You could also probably achieve the same thing with webgpu, but for the time being i have not yet had a reason to switch :)

Awesome. I think I will switch from rust to typescript on the front end and do something similar in WebGPU. Before I did some wasm stuff with the wgpu crate but the fact that wasm can't reach the DOM is a bit of a headache and the gains in performance from WASM seem to be offset by the fact that I still need to create a sort of communication channel between wasm and js if I want my 3D app to talk to a websocket.

Your project is very motivating thank you for making this!

Update: I'm I'm just gonna use webgl too. WebGPU seems to be nowhere near a usable state if you're a Linux user, they seemed to have focused more on ChromeOS, MacOS and Windows first so far, with Linux support to be released sometime in the future. Apparently with WebGPU you're better off on native now, and the wasm target just uses the webgl backend ;D

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