[vtk-developers] VTK/VES and emscripten?

[Yumin Yuan]

Hi Steve,

emscripten was brought up (by David Thompson) during one of our group
meetings yesterday. We were talking about a possible webclient based on a
Qt/VTK application, and an emscripten type approach will be very appealing.
We haven't investigated the possibility whether this will work yet, but it
is on our radar, and would love to hear inputs regarding this too.

Thanks,
Yumin


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Steve Pieper <pieper at ibility.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks -
> >
> > Has anyone tried VES/VTK and emscripten[1]?  Other OpenGL (ES) game
> platforms appear to compile to javascript and work with WebGL (even on a
> phone!) and you can even run complete, if simple, Qt applications in a
> browser.
> >
> > I can already hear the purists scream about this being an 'ugly hack'
> which, I have to admit, it kind of is.  But it also shows some promise and
> for a certain subset of VTK functionality it might make sense to expose
> javascript bindings this way rather than rewriting something new in pure
> javascript.  See for example the zlib, python, sqlite, and other large
> C/C++ code bases that are automagically available now in the browser.
> >
> I haven't had time to actually try it out yet, but have been thinking
> about using it (and had some brief discussions with a friend at
> Mozilla. I think it would be a great approach that could allow us to
> share a lot of common code on mobile and web, although WebGL lacks
> some features that are available on mobile as far as I can tell there
> is a lot of commonality.
>
> It is certainly something we should consider, and it seems like a good
> candidate for the new rendering code in VTK too.
>
> Marcus
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