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With the release of Adobe Flash Player 10 it now can use the GPU to accelerate images, effects and 3D. As well as use GPU acceleration for Flash based video (like Youtube, or HD video within Flash for instance).
I think this is a big thing, which is why i'm posting about it. New kinds of 3D games (that actually look decent) could start appearing that you simply play in your web browser window. Or websites could start having 3D interfaces.
Before V10, to do anything that even looked 3D in flash took up massive amounts of CPU power, and applying effects to video in real-time was pretty much out of the question. I could have made the most simple 3D things in Flash that would have completely crippled my 3.8GHz quad-core. Vector based graphics do not run at all well on CPU's.
I know other things like Java can do some of this stuff, but not to the same extent, and with the same kind of performance as Flash.
Anyway, here are some playable 3D demo's.. Click on the images to run them....
Demo's
I think this is a big thing, which is why i'm posting about it. New kinds of 3D games (that actually look decent) could start appearing that you simply play in your web browser window. Or websites could start having 3D interfaces.
Before V10, to do anything that even looked 3D in flash took up massive amounts of CPU power, and applying effects to video in real-time was pretty much out of the question. I could have made the most simple 3D things in Flash that would have completely crippled my 3.8GHz quad-core. Vector based graphics do not run at all well on CPU's.
I know other things like Java can do some of this stuff, but not to the same extent, and with the same kind of performance as Flash.
Anyway, here are some playable 3D demo's.. Click on the images to run them....
Demo's
- Obviously you need Flash Player 10 for them to work.
Pretty damn good for flash really.
