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Real-Time 3D Graphics with WebGL 2 - Second Edition

By : Farhad Ghayour, Diego Cantor
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Book Image

Real-Time 3D Graphics with WebGL 2 - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Farhad Ghayour, Diego Cantor

Overview of this book

As highly interactive applications have become an increasingly important part of the user experience, WebGL is a unique and cutting-edge technology that brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the web. Packed with 80+ examples, this book guides readers through the landscape of real-time computer graphics using WebGL 2. Each chapter covers foundational concepts in 3D graphics programming with various implementations. Topics are always associated with exercises for a hands-on approach to learning. This book presents a clear roadmap to learning real-time 3D computer graphics with WebGL 2. Each chapter starts with a summary of the learning goals for the chapter, followed by a detailed description of each topic. The book offers example-rich, up-to-date introductions to a wide range of essential 3D computer graphics topics, including rendering, colors, textures, transformations, framebuffers, lights, surfaces, blending, geometry construction, advanced techniques, and more. With each chapter, you will "level up" your 3D graphics programming skills. This book will become your trustworthy companion in developing highly interactive 3D web applications with WebGL and JavaScript.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Time for Action: Adding a Blue Light to a Scene

We’re ready to take a look at the first example in this chapter. We will work on a scene with per-fragment lighting that has three light sources.

Each light has a position and a diffuse color property. This means we have two uniforms per light. Perform the following steps:

  1. To keep things simple, we have assumed that the ambient color is the same for all three light sources. We have also removed the specular property. Open the ch06_02_wall_initial.html file in your browser.
  1. You will see a scene such as the one displayed in the following screenshot where two lights (red and green) illuminate a black wall:
  1. Open the ch06_02_wall-initial.html file using your code editor. We will update the vertex shader, the fragment shader, the JavaScript code, and the HTML code to add the blue light.
  2. Updating the vertex shader: Go to the...