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The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

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596 points consumer451 | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 22:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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zamadatix ◴[17 Nov 24 01:46 UTC] No.42161296[source]▶
I absolutely love these firehose projects. So much fun. Makes me hope Bluesky gets 10x bigger soon :D.

If you add the following line just prior to the return in createTextTexture() the blurriness goes away:

  texture.anisotropy = renderer.capabilities.getMaxAnisotropy();
The perf could probably be largely solved with reusing texture objects as a pool instead of creating then destroying them as needed. I'm too lazy for that though :p.
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1. Etheryte ◴[17 Nov 24 13:05 UTC] No.42164005[source]▶
Yeah, managing your own memory is a good performance optimization a surprising amount of time when working with large data sets in Javascript. I've seen it used in 3D code, graph problems, etc, and so long as you keep it isolated, it's not too much of a hassle.