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by bsenftner 4373 days ago
I think it is easy to confuse developers unfamiliar with 3D graphics into thinking Famo.us is doing something unique, special, or new. I like the idea, but the "amazing demos" I am seeing are just extremely basic 3D & 2D operations, not really successfully replacing the ease of use traditional DOM elements provide. This space will get a lot of players, now that the essential idea is seeded in a zillion developers minds.
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The author of the rather awesome three.js demonstrated how to make Famo.us' periodic table visualisation with his library: http://mrdoob.github.io/three.js/examples/css3d_periodictabl...
They oversold it, for sure. The code is solid though, if still very much in progress.

What they call a 'render tree' is pretty much just a scene graph, and they are moving to that as well.

http://adnanwahab.com/Render-Tree-Visualization/