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This is really cool, but it is intensely consuming the 80% of my cpu resource (osx 10.7.3 intel dual core & 8gb ram).

• gdubs 15y ago
  Agreed – this is very cool. Probably using so much CPU because it actually updates a paragraph tag in the DOM with all of those characters. I bet a canvas tag with text fills would solve the speed problem. But then, the page would not be SEO friendly ;)
  • nkwiatek 15y ago
    Canvas actually gave me disappointing results, believe it or not. The text rendering wasn't as fast or as pleasantly rendered compared to just using the DOM. It didn't seem worth it to me to try and optimize a canvas rendering routine, although I could have been overly naive with my initial tests.
    • mrdoob2 15y ago
      Did you tried creating a imageData for every single character in the "ASCII gradient" and then using putImageData( imageData, x, y )?
      • nkwiatek 15y ago
        First of all, I am a big fan of your work Mr. Doob. Secondly, no! That's a good idea, I'll have to try it out.
• yread 15y ago
  Yeah i got ~2fps on WP7.5 omnia7
• mihaifm 15y ago
  i7 is at 10% :P
  • WhohReally 15y ago
    My P4 3Ghz with HT is about 70% :P
• vacri 15y ago
  running about 25% on a 2.6GHz laptop i7 here. gnome/firefox