Happy now? Mr.Tucker? ;)

And how about New Pixel Bender and fuly CS4 (no pv3d) acid_cubes http://mrdoob.com/lab/pv3d/acid_cubes.html ? =) Have a nice day...

Ole Jak

I can't see why pixel bender is needed on that one. Making it pv3d-less could be interesting for getting used with flash 10 3d, but uhm... not too inspired :D

Great! more res. more detail!
But I was wondering about performance.

Function Calling Vs. Variable usage.

Improves something on speed?

SinT=Math.sin(Timer * .0002);
CosT=Math.cos(Timer * .00005);
Timer=getTimer();

shader.data.center.value = [ SinT * 300 + (stage.stageWidth >> 1), Math.cos(Timer * .0001) * 300 + (stage.stageHeight >> 1) ];
shader.data.wave.value = [ Math.sin(Timer * .0001) * .06 + 0.01, CosT * .05 ];
shader.data.offset.value = [ Math.sin(Timer * .0004) * 200, Math.cos(Timer * .0003) * 200 ];
shader.data.color_offset.value = [ SinT * 2, Math.sin(Timer * .00009) * 2, CosT * 2 ];
shader.data.distort.value = [ Math.sin(Timer * .00008) * .05 ];

That won't change much jaK. That's called once per frame. It can give you half a frame or a frame, but if you want to optimise you should go down to optimise the kernel, as it gets executed once per pixel and there are sin/cos there too.

Be my guest ;)

So, it's like GLSL fragment shaders, or a some sort of software variable pipeline?

Things changed a lot in ActionScript! :D
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So, in this case you can try to pre-compute a few things here in order to speed-up things a bit.

Althought your angle increment has Timer involved within. Have to adjust that for pre-comp. table access.

Anyway, this is a fast test, to make us an idea on how this new AS stuff works.

This is how the shader language looks like:

http://code.google.com/p/mrdoob/source/browse/trunk/lab/effects/shaders/plasma/dev/assets/plasma.pbk

And yeah, I didn't optimised it as much as I could, I just kept it fun and moved to the next thing.

Quite nice! It shows a drastic improvement in speed and processing power in 3 years. Now if only it could compare to Java even.. :)

thewickedchris: I'm not very confident neither to Java or AS, in terms of improvement in speed.

When I want such that thing I move to C++ & O.S accel. drivers fullscreen rendering, like 3 years or more ago...

;D