This is supposed to be more efficient as per Apple OpenGL ES recommendations:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/3DDrawing/Conceptual/OpenGLES_ProgrammingGuide/TechniquesForWorkingWithTextureData/TechniquesForWorkingWithTextureData.html

Also we have been generating mipmaps twice for render targets.

It was quite a pain - ArrayBuffers / Typed Arrays are fussy about byte alignment - but seems to be worth it.

Parsing times are down (modest gains for small objects / Firefox, bigger gains for large objects / Chrome, performance gains from 10% - 200%).

Also as a positive side effect, changing interleaved face arrays into uniform arrays seems to have helped a bit with gzip compression (about 6% smaller size for gzipped 526K Lucy).

Proper IcosahedronGeometry next...

It makes the whole thing imprecise, but cubes are now properly reflective.

There seems to be some bug in the picking code, will investigate.

Fixed Blender importer to work with Blender 2.60, add option for importing workers or non-worker models.

Fixed more examples to use worker-less format. All examples should work now.

Only Max exporter should be left to change.

Also manually fixed buffalo model and test scene to be valid JSONs.

Hooked more values to DAT.GUI

Work-in-progress => do not merge yet.

OBJ converter, JSONLoader, BinaryLoader and some examples are done. Still need to do Blender exporter, SceneLoader and more examples.

Advantages:

- faster parse times
- bypass array initializer size limit in Firefox
- no more crashes in Chrome 15 (caused by too many concurrently active workers)

Disadvantages:

- more browser UI freezing
- multiple models tend to appear all at once with the last one (instead of popping up progressively)

And still readable code...

It's enough to clone just for hits, no need to do it for every face.

Removed some clone() calls while still keeping the code somewhat pretty.

So we can set it to lowp for mobile devices if needed.

Not sure what was that supposed to be for, we didn't have a single use case.

Also fixed RTT example, it was affected by unlit Lambert change.

Zombies now look correct.

Though still getting undebuggable random crashes in Chrome with ro.me animals demo :S

Mostly just shuffling code around to have more organized "big picture" view.

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/689