Chapter 9. WebGL: 3D application development

Chapter 8 at a glance

Topic

Description, methods, and so on

Page

Engine creation Creating a WebGL engine from scratch  
 
  • Time-saving scripts
  • Basic engine pattern
  • Default entity class
  • Helper methods
274 277 279 280
Graphics cards Interacting with a graphics card  
 
  • OpenGL
  • Creating shaders
  • Attaching 3D data to entities
  • Outputting shapes
  • Matrices usage
282 284 283 288 288
WebGL app Putting everything together to create an app  
 
  • 2D triangle in 3D
  • 3D basics
  • Large complex polygons
  • Cubes
  • Particle generation
296 297 300 305 308

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