As beautiful as this is, it still saddens me that the best we have for efficient cloud effects is drifting camera-facing billboards displaying pre-rendered poofs.
I'm impressed that not only did this run on my Android phone in the stock browser, but that it was relatively smooth (hitching infrequently but for probably 300ms when it did).
I remember seeing this a year ago. It's awesome how smooth it has become— last time I checked, it was choppy on my machine whereas now it's butter smooth. Browsers are sure improving rapidly these days.
Hmm, on Chrome 24.0.1312.69 on 64 bit Linux the depth effect is missing. When rotated, it looks like a picture of a cloud painted on an invisible wall. No problem in Firefox.
I was expecting it to be a complete horror-show on my G5 mac, but it was actually really smooth (once it had settled down of course..). Really nice work. Well done!
I like how Michael Bay was an option. Also very surprised it works so well on my Nexus 4. Touch screen rotation is a bit weird tho, but wow.. no lag.
Amazing demos. Are there any real-world applications using something like this?
Look great but the title "CSS 3D Clouds" is not truthful.
Looks great -- only tweak would be to add proper depth sorting to avoid the "popping" effect (more visible with the darker textures).
If the explosion micheal bay effect happened in real time it would be sick
This is very well done. I especially love the Michael Bay option.
Awesome on chrome on Ubuntu 64-bit, buggy and slow on Firefox.
This is really awesome! Add it to twitter bootstrap for kicks!
It is simply amazing, also the speed is quite good!
It seems that if I get all the options to "a lot" I get at least one or two clouds replaced by a white box icon. I imagine it's not loading them properly?
The speed is excellent -- really smooth.
Very slow on Firefox 18.0.2, linux
Works great on my blackberry z10.
it does look pretty good. I m quite amazed such a technique is doable via css
Love the Michael Bay
speed is very good compare to WebGL
WOW
this is seriously cool.
the cloud animation could use a little bit of easing. It looks a bit choppy right now on mouse move.
Great demo and presentation.
This is apparently based on the WebGL clouds demo, which is equally as amazing: http://mrdoob.com/131/Clouds