Preface

Each year, web browsers become more powerful, increase in features, and improve in performance. Throughout the last couple of years, browsers have emerged as a great platform to create immersive, complex, and beautiful applications. Most of the current applications that are being built use modern HTML5 features such as web sockets, local storage, and advanced CSS techniques for styling.

Most modern browsers, however, also have support for a technology that can be used to create beautiful, 3D graphics and animations that use the GPU to achieve maximal performance. This technology is called WebGL and is supported by the latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer. With WebGL, you can create 3D scenes that run directly ...

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