Comment by bnetd

Comment by bnetd 3 days ago

Does anyone remember that mid-2000s, 3D competitor to Flash? i think the name started with A like Ankh or something like that but I could be wildly off. It had an IDE and basically ran as a plugin in the browser. It died a quiet death.

This site kinda sorta reminds me of that.

Forget what it's called - if someone does, please post more info!

thebruce87m 2 days ago

Anark Studio?

https://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW/2004/Volume-27-Issue-4-...

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bnetd a day ago

More than likely this is it. Well done Bruce! Any insider info on it?

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- thebruce87m a day ago
  
  None from me - I had never heard of it, thought I’d have a look and got lucky!
  
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foota 3 days ago

Maybe one of these? https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/297894-good-3d-browser-...

Your description also made me think of babylon js, but that was later.

Also maybe java applets?

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matsemann 3 days ago

What about 3D Anarchy, later bought becoming Adobe Atmosphere?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Atmosphere

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meiraleal 2 days ago

Wasn't it VRML or maybe some tool that generated VRML? What I found with A that generated VRML was 'Avocado'

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dieselgate 3 days ago

“A frame” was one but likely not what you mean

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Oia20 3 days ago

Not Adobe shockwave, right?

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bnetd 3 days ago

No, this was a completely different, but competing product. the IDE was intended for, to some extent, simple 3D modeling/importing of 3D models, and you could launch a browser instance to see the output.

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- neogodless 2 days ago
  
  Didn't Microsoft have something like that? Sketchflow?
  
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  noduerme 2 days ago
  
  Microsoft had Silverlight, which was a competing platform with Flash.
  
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