I was reading the Qt blog’s on Webkit when I came aross this post on the chrome experiment Monster.

The experiment is written by Dean McNamee and is a JavaScript 3d rendering engine. There is a great article on it at the google code blog.

It renders a cube that turns into a sphere then a monster. All with just JavaScript, no Flash or other plugins.

I tried launching the demo (click to open in a new window) in Chrome, Safari and Firefox. Chrome was the only browser that handled the animation well. It didn’t even use more then a few MB of memory to do it. Safari climbed to about 200MB of memory and didn’t render the more intensive parts of the animation. Firefox was slow in rendering and also took up to 200MB of memory. This just shows how vastly superior Chrome’s Javascript engine (V8) is. You’d also have to take into account the implementation of the Canvas element, but the Javascript execution is what really matters.

The code for Monster isn’t released yet. Would be cool to play around with it when it is.

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