WebGL beginner's guide : become a master of 3D web programming in WebGL and JavaScript / Diego Cantor, Brandon Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cantor, Diego.

Contributor:

Jones, Brandon.

Series:

Learn by doing : less theory, more results

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer graphics--Computer programs.

Computer graphics.

HTML (Document markup language).

Internet programming.

JavaScript (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Web graphics library beginner's guide

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, India : Packt Publishing, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Become a master of 3D web programming in WebGL and JavaScript

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started with WebGL; System requirements; What kind of rendering does WebGL offer?; Structure of a WebGL application; Creating an HTML5 canvas; Time for action - creating an HTML5 canvas; Defining a CSS style for the border; Understanding canvas attributes; What if the canvas is not supported?; Accessing a WebGL context; Time for action - accessing the WebGL context; WebGL is a state machine; Time for action - setting up WebGL context attributes

Using the context to access the WebGL APILoading a 3D scene; Virtual car showroom; Time for action - visualizing a finished scene; Summary; Chapter 2: Rendering Geometry; Vertices and Indices; Overview of WebGL's rendering pipeline; Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs); Vertex shader; Fragment shader; Framebuffer; Attributes, uniforms, and varyings; Rendering geometry in WebGL; Defining a geometry using JavaScript arrays; Creating WebGL buffers; Operations to manipulate WebGL buffers; Associating attributes to VBOs; Binding a VBO; Pointing an attribute to the currently bound VBO

Enabling the attributeRendering; The drawArrays and drawElements functions; Putting everything together; Time for action - rendering a square; Rendering modes; Time for action - rendering modes; WebGL as a state machine: buffer manipulation; Time for action - enquiring on the state of buffers; Advanced geometry loading techniques: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and AJAX; Introduction to JSON - JavaScript Object Notation; Defining JSON-based 3D models; JSON encoding and decoding; Time for action - JSON encoding and decoding; Asynchronous loading with AJAX; Setting up a web server

Working around the web server requirementTime for action - loading a cone with AJAX + JSON; Summary; Chapter 3: Lights!; Lights, normals, and materials; Lights; Normals; Materials; Using lights, normals, and materials in the pipeline; Parallelism and the difference between attributes and uniforms; Shading methods and light reflection models; Shading/interpolation methods; Goraud interpolation; Phong interpolation; Light reflection models; Lambertian reflection model; Phong reflection model; ESSL-OpenGL ES Shading Language; Storage qualifier; Types; Vector components; Operators and functions

Vertex attributesUniforms; Varyings; Vertex shader; Fragment shader; Writing ESSL programs; Goraud shading with Lambertian reflections; Time for action - updating uniforms in real time; Goraud shading with Phong reflections; Time for action - Goraud shading; Phong shading; Time for action - Phong shading with Phong lighting; Back to WebGL; Creating a program; Initializing attributes and uniforms; Bridging the gap between WebGL and ESSL; Time for action - working on the wall; More on lights: positional lights; Time for action - positional lights in action; Nissan GTS example; Summary

Chapter 4: Camera

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 7, 2013).

ISBN:

9786613714251

9781280872945

1280872942

9781849691734

1849691738

OCLC:

797917408