Julia Meets HTML5

mikejuk writes "Google labs has created a demo web page where fractals combine with HTML5 to give a fully interactive viewer that uses nothing but JavaScript and as many cores as you care to offer it and not a plug-in in sight."

Link missing from summary.

[Kagura]

Here's the link to Google Labs' . Also, there's an obvious typo in the summary title. I'm unhappy with Slashdot lately. [googlelabs.com]

Re:Why is this surprising?

[jfengel]

I think the point is that Julia sets are compute-intensive, and they want to show off that "Modern browsers have optimized JavaScript execution up to the point where it is now possible to render in a browser fractals like Julia sets almost instantly" (to quote the web page rather than the freaking blog TFS linked to).

The demo shows a count of "flops". It's hardly instant on my laptop (an elderly beast), and 20 megaflops isn't exactly making GPUs quake in their boots, but it implies that running Real Applications written in Javascript is a reasonable thing to do.

Re:This takes me back...

[Fnkmaster]

Nothing quite like calculating and rendering fractals in Javascript to make your Core i7 feel like a Pentium 200.

What?

[Trogre]

Great, now I can render the Mandelbrot set on my dual-core 4800+ box nearly as fast as I could on my 386 with FractInt.

I wish I was kidding, but if this is a representative demo of HTML5 then we're in trouble.