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My mind = blown.

ghastlycomicghastlycomic Posts: 2,531
edited December 1969 in The Commons

30 years ago: I was a digital warrior in a shadowy new world inhabited by few. I rode the phone lines at 300 baud with my Commodore VIC-Modem, sneering with contempt at the lowly 110 baud users but shamefully jealous of the lucky few with 1200 baud. Good luck to them finding a BBS that would support such speeds.

20 years ago: I rocked the local BBSs at 14.4K on my Atari ST and ventured into the Usenet regularly. There were more and more of us online, but few ventured further than that local BBS. I was exploring the virgin world wide web with a lynx browser because full graphic browsing choked my 14.4K modem.

10 years ago: The local BBSs were gone, a forgotten realm of the past. The entire world was online now and high speed internet made the web easily accessible, usenet was no longer the king of the internet and for most people the world wide web WAS the internet.

Today: ....

... I can sculpt 3D tentacle monsters online.... over the web....

http://stephaneginier.com/sculptgl/

This absolutely blows my mind. It's almost as good as Sculptris and it's being run over the web. If we're able to run stuff like this over the web with today's technology just imagine what we'll be able to do online 10 years from now. WOW!

This is just... WOW!

Comments

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    Yea, I think at this point technology is only as limited as a person's imagination. It is neat, but I foresee Pixologic buying that out, too. Sculptris started out as as someone's personal project as well, and look where that went. lol

  • araneldonaraneldon Posts: 712
    edited July 2013

    Well, technically SculptGL isn't much different from Sculptris, it runs on your computer. It's just delivered differently.

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  • ghastlycomicghastlycomic Posts: 2,531
    edited December 1969

    Vaskania said:
    Yea, I think at this point technology is only as limited as a person's imagination. It is neat, but I foresee Pixologic buying that out, too. Sculptris started out as as someone's personal project as well, and look where that went. lol

    Let''s hope not. The worst thing to happen to Sculptris was Pixologic buying it to keep it from going Open Source.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    ghastlycomic said:
    Vaskania said:
    Yea, I think at this point technology is only as limited as a person's imagination. It is neat, but I foresee Pixologic buying that out, too. Sculptris started out as as someone's personal project as well, and look where that went. lol

    Let''s hope not. The worst thing to happen to Sculptris was Pixologic buying it to keep it from going Open Source.
    Yep. I keep hoping that thing gets updated, and every time I look, I'm horribly let down. lol

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