Great demo and presentation.<p>This is apparently based on the WebGL clouds demo, which is equally as amazing: <a href="http://mrdoob.com/131/Clouds" rel="nofollow">http://mrdoob.com/131/Clouds</a>
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!
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?