Re: [css-shaders] subdivision for transparency

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Gregg Tavares (wrk) <gman@google.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As for filters, I was really hoping that we'd be able to specify them as
>>> purely a 2d effect - as in whatever is composited in the end is a quad, not
>>> a mesh, even if the filter itself uses a mesh.
>>>
>>
>> I totally agree. The result of a "custom" filter primitive is flattened to
>> an image. Nothing else makes sense, even within a filter chain
>>
>
> That's fine in all you want to achieve is filtering effects but that
> doesn't fit with the examples shown by Adobe. They're morphing the content
> in 3d.
> http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/css-shaders.html#1
>
> In one case they're morphing something to look like a newspaper. It unfolds
> but is still interactive once it unfolds.
>
> In another case they're morphing a twitter feed a kind of wavy shape and
> they are interacting with it while it's in this wavy shape. I don't see why
> the user would think it's not 100% interactive.
>
> So it seems like for this proposal to be generally useful that content
> needs to able to be interactive (ie, the user needs to able to click on
> stuff just like they can with 3d css). Otherwise the number of use cases for
> it seems exceedingly small.
>

Sure, and I just wrote a message about this on Vincent's original thread,
but it's an orthogonal issue to the treatment of z-values. We can have
filters affect the processing of events without requiring vertex-shader z
values propagate through the rendering pipeline.

Rob
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