fast-rectangles

KO | EN

gitlite — search

#python #java #python3 #arduino #golang #machine-learning #rust #html #flask #javascript #seismology #nodejs

fast-rectangles

★ 17 Open GitHub ↗

Different and fast approaches to rendering rectangles in your browser

// repository documentation

Was this content helpful?

★ 0 (0 ratings)

## Fastest Rectangles

Some thoughts:
- How many ways can you draw rectangles in a browser (eg. dom, css, 2d canvas, svg, webgl)
- How is the fastest (most number of) rectangles can you draw with each approach?

Task:
- Paint random rectangles for 5 seconds, find out how fast each approach takes.

Rational:
- For various reasons, you may want to find the most convinent approach to draw rectangles. In [Space Radar](github.com/zz85/space-radar), I find myself having > 100K rectanges to paint at times, which is why I'm exploring and testing which ways rectangles can be painted.

Tests Cases:
- DOM, CSS, Canvas, or WebGL (three.js, stackgl or other libraries) may be used
- Fill them
- Stroke them
- Rectangle should be updatable by JS
- Rectangles are defined by (x, y, w, h)
- Canvas dimension is 1024x768.
- Random rects dimensions is width/4, height/4
- They are in units as fraction of the screen size (0..1)
- Each draw frame should be within 16.67s (60fps)
- Goal is to see compare the different approaches

## Current Results

These numbers are estimated number of triangles that can be drawn in a single 60fps frame (which has only 16.67ms rendering time). As with all benchmarks, these numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. There are many factors depending on different scenarios so milleage always vary.

0. Headless - (overheads of Math.random) 76K ([boilerplate.html](http://zz85.github.io/fast-rectangles/boilerplate.html))
1. Canvas - 2.7K rectangles ([canvas.html](http://zz85.github.io/fast-rectangles/canvas.html))
2. PixiJS - 3.1K Canvas Renderer, 2.3K WebGL Renderer ([pixi.html](http://zz85.github.io/fast-rectangles/pixi.html))
3. PixiJS - Single graphics. 1.8K WebGL, 2.4K Canvas ([pixi-single.html](http://zz85.github.io/fast-rectangles/pixi-single.html))
4. Three.js (Rect as mesh) ([three-simple.html](http://zz85.github.io/fast-rectangles/three-simple.html))
- each mesh as individual geometry (WebGl Renderer)
   - no shared geometry & no shared material - 1K
	   - shared geometry - 1.8K
	   - shared material - 3.7K (1.1K for canvas renderer)
	   - Add rect strokes (fill only, no lines) - 1.7K
	   - Almost similar using buffergeometry + line buffers (1.7K)

5. Single Buffer Geometry ([three-buffer.html](http://zz85.github.io/fast-rectangles/three-buffer.html))
	- 5K

6. Instance Geometry ([three-instance.html](http://zz85.github.io/fast-rectangles/three-instance.html))
	- 26K rectangles (Fill + Stroke)

7. Raw WebGL ([raw-webgl.html](http://zz85.github.io/fast-rectangles/raw-webgl.html))

## To come

## Others
- Indexed / Interved Buffers?
- Using point sprites

fast-rectangles

Explore Similar Repositories

Was this content helpful?

Recent Feedback

Download README