Overview
- GL for HTML5 quickly gets you up to speed with Web. GL and shaders within the browser.
- You'll learn techniques, frameworks, and tools that will enable increased productivity, better rendering performance, and enhanced realism.
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Beginning WebGL for HTML5 gets you rapidly up to speed with WebGL, a powerful new graphics language within the browser. You'll render realistic scenes with advanced lighting models, shadows, blending and textures. You'll also use mathematics to model fractals and particle systems. Going beyond that, Beginning WebGL for HTML5 presents advanced vertex and fragment shader usage for creating stunning, top-end results.
You'll benefit from using modern frameworks to rapidly develop complex scenes, and make use of many tools to help improve rendering performance and debugging. Beginning WebGL for HTML5 builds your critical WebGL development skills while being enjoyable at each step of the way.
- Quickly get up to speed with WebGL
- Render realistic scenes
- Work faster with frameworks
- Improve rendering performance
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
About the author
Brian Danchilla is a freelance PHP and Java developer and author. Danchilla is the coauthor of Pro PHP Programming, a contributing author to HTML 5 Games Most Wanted, and technical reviewer of HTML 5 Animation with JavaScript. He has worked with OpenGL for several years and has a passion for graphics, art and mathematics. WebGL is the great new cross platform, cross device way to program 3D graphics and so naturally, he has been drawn to it. His other interests include number theory and playing guitar.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning WebGL for HTML5
Authors: Brian Danchilla
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3997-0
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Brian Danchilla 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-3996-3Published: 07 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-3997-0Published: 10 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 356
Topics: Web Development, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Computer Graphics