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Re: 5 Incredible WebGL Demos

Nick Pettit — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:34:27 -0000

It's both, actually. It was built in NaCl primarily, but it uses WebGL to render 3D graphics.

From the official Ubisoft FAQ:
"This game requires a WebGL-compatible graphics card, more info on this can be found here."
Link: https://support.ubi.com/en-...

You can also load up Chrome's GPU log while running the game by going to chrome://gpu/ in another tab. You'll see that several GL contexts are loaded.

Re: The Beginner’s Guide to three.js

Nick Pettit — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:39:25 -0000

Yep! I figured out on CodePen that you can store JSON data in another pen and then link it to an existing pen where you have your three.js scene loaded.

Re: The Beginner’s Guide to three.js

Nick Pettit — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 16:17:58 -0000

Huh, sounds like Treehouse should probably make a better course. If only someone would tell them to get on it. ;)

Re: The Beginner’s Guide to three.js

Nick Pettit — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:27:26 -0000

I haven't tried Babylon.js, although it looks like there's no documentation for it. Just examples. :P Am I missing something?

Re: 3D in the Browser: WebGL versus CSS 3D Transforms

Nick Pettit — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:30:33 -0000

Possible, but still not super awesome, because you'll still need a DOM element container for each SVG. DOM elements can be somewhat costly in high numbers, especially when you need one for every face.

Models in WebGL, particularly those stored in JSON, are far less memory intensive and, on decent hardware, can get you up around a million triangles with good framerates. To do that in the DOM would crash the browser.

Re: 3D in the Browser: WebGL versus CSS 3D Transforms

Nick Pettit — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 12:27:28 -0000

In many cases you have to set an explicit width and height on your container elements, then position them using absolute positioning. After that, the real positioning can be done with translations on the XYZ axes. Similar techniques are common for both DOM and WebGL based 3D.

Re: Multiplane Design with SVGs and CSS 3D Transforms

Nick Pettit — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:53:05 -0000

Whoa, just now saw this comment. That is a crazy coincidence.

You might also want to check out this one: http://wagerfield.github.io...

Looks like many of us all had the same idea at the same time. :)

Re: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Killer Video Podcasts

Nick Pettit — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:17:56 -0000

Hi Arlo,

Good question! At Treehouse, we have free content and paid content. On YouTube, we post all of our free content, but it's a mix for our paid content. Some of it we will release for free after a certain period of time, while for other things we'll release a trailer or preview clip.

You should always figure out a way to include YouTube in your marketing strategy, because it ranks highly in organic searches and can lead to a lot of referrals.

Re: Don’t Be a Pixel Perfectionist

Nick Pettit — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 09:29:39 -0000

Oh, absolutely. Designers deal in pixels and percentages all day long. :)

What I'm getting at is the temptation to adjust the blur radius on a text shadow for the 5th time. There's the tendency (I'm guilty of it as well) to equate tweaking a lot of things rapidly with doing work. Some of that is OK, but there comes a point where you have to cut yourself off and say, "Looks great!" and move on. It's hard to know when that is.

Re: Multiplane Design with SVGs and CSS 3D Transforms

Nick Pettit — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:30:52 -0000

Thanks, Josh!

Re: 3 Rules for Writing Web Copy

Nick Pettit — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 15:05:56 -0000

Boom! http://youtu.be/MGy4oaAWSAU

New episode every Tuesday. ;)

Re: The Future Beyond Flat Design

Nick Pettit — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:42:12 -0000

Totally agree. I try to sneak fundamentals into trendy topics like veggies sneak into carrot cake. ;)

Re: The Future Beyond Flat Design

Nick Pettit — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:37:28 -0000

It's always interesting to see where things go next. I'm just glad we're beyond the "Web 2.0 look" these days. :)

Re: Responsive Design Patterns

Nick Pettit — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 12:36:20 -0000

Thanks, Jenn! Glad to have you on board as a student. :)

Re: CSS3 Animation Demystified

Nick Pettit — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:11:11 -0000

Glad I could help. :)

Re: CSS3 Animation Demystified

Nick Pettit — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:11:02 -0000

No problem! Glad you like it. :)

Re: 8 Google Docs Tips You May Not Have Known About

Nick Pettit — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 13:25:53 -0000

Awesome, glad you found this post useful. We're definitely planning to get into more GA and SEO analyzation, it's just a question of when. Is that what you're looking for, or were you referring to something else?

Re: 8 Google Docs Tips You May Not Have Known About

Nick Pettit — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 13:24:33 -0000

Glad I could help. :)

Re: 8 Google Docs Tips You May Not Have Known About

Nick Pettit — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 13:24:22 -0000

Thanks! :)

Re: 8 Google Docs Tips You May Not Have Known About

Nick Pettit — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 13:23:57 -0000

Glad you found them useful!

Re: 8 Google Docs Tips You May Not Have Known About

Nick Pettit — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:13:16 -0000

Yep! Google Docs and Google Drive are sort of interchangeable terms still. I'm old school and have been using Gdocs for ages, so I still say Google Docs. It's essentially the same set of tools though. :)

Re: The CSS Shapes Module will Revolutionize Web Design

Nick Pettit — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:27:44 -0000

Me too! I really think this is going to change things.

Re: The CSS Shapes Module will Revolutionize Web Design

Nick Pettit — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:27:29 -0000

Glad you enjoyed the post! :)

Re: The CSS Shapes Module will Revolutionize Web Design

Nick Pettit — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:27:19 -0000

I'm morbidly curious to see what this looks like.

Re: New Treehouse Reward Videos!

Nick Pettit — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:16:14 -0000

I think there's about 20 of them that you can unlock right now. :)