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WebGL Beginner's Guide

WebGL Beginner's Guide

By : Diego Cantor, Brandon Jones
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WebGL Beginner's Guide

WebGL Beginner's Guide

4.2 (9)
By: Diego Cantor, Brandon Jones

Overview of this book

WebGL is a new web technology that brings hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser without installing additional software. As WebGL is based on OpenGL and brings in a new concept of 3D graphics programming to web development, it may seem unfamiliar to even experienced Web developers.Packed with many examples, this book shows how WebGL can be easy to learn despite its unfriendly appearance. Each chapter addresses one of the important aspects of 3D graphics programming and presents different alternatives for its implementation. The topics are always associated with exercises that will allow the reader to put the concepts to the test in an immediate manner.WebGL Beginner's Guide presents a clear road map to learning WebGL. 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 WebGL topics, including drawing, color, texture, transformations, framebuffers, light, surfaces, geometry, and more. With each chapter, you will "level up"ù your 3D graphics programming skills. This book will become your trustworthy companion filled with the information required to develop cool-looking 3D web applications with WebGL and JavaScript.
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Normal transformations

Whenever vertices are transformed, normal vectors should also be transformed, so they point in the right direction. We could think of using the Model-View matrix that transforms vertices to do this, but there is a problem: The Model-View matrix will not always keep the perpendicularity of normals.

Normal transformations

This problem occurs if there is a unidirectional (one axis) scaling transformation or a shearing transformation in the Model-View matrix. In our example, we have a triangle that has undergone a scaling transformation on the y-axis. As you can see, the normal N' is not normal anymore after this kind of transformation. How do we solve this?

Calculating the Normal matrix

If you are not interested in finding out how we calculate the Normal matrix and just want the answer, please feel free to jump to the end of this section. Otherwise, stick around to see some linear algebra in action!

Let's start from the mathematical definition of perpendicularity. Two vectors are perpendicular...

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