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WebGL HOTSHOT

By : Mitch Williams
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WebGL HOTSHOT

By: Mitch Williams

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WebGL HOTSHOT
Mitch Williams
May, 2014 | 306 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WebGL HOTSHOT
WebGL HOTSHOT
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Building Great Web3D
Building Great Web3D
A second coming
Comprehensive solutions
Mission briefing
Introduction to 3D fundamentals
Transformations – translation, rotation, and scaling
Lights, camera, action!
Navigating between multiple viewpoints
Animation with interpolators
Adding texture maps to 3D meshes
Lighting a scene and shading 3D objects with normals
Creating an animated Solar System with multiple cameras for navigation
Mission accomplished
2
WebGL for E-Commerce
WebGL for E-Commerce
Mission briefing
Introduction to WebGL
WebGL 3D with Perspective View
WebGL texture mapping and animation
Loading a 3D modeled object, normals, and lighting
Using the mouse for interactivity
E-commerce using existing assets
E-commerce with 3D modeling
Mission accomplished
3
User Experience, Story, Character, Visual Design, and Interactivity
User Experience, Story, Character, Visual Design, and Interactivity
Mission briefing
Refreshment with shader languages
Lighting 3D depths
Visual design and interactivity
Full navigation
Order of transparencies
Scene lighting
Mission accomplished
4
Mobile and Web3D Gaming
Mobile and Web3D Gaming
Mission briefing
Creating user interfaces in the 3D environment
Designing a game
Fun with physics and collisions
Mission accomplished
5
Social Media Meets Its Destiny
Social Media Meets Its Destiny
Mission briefing
Bridging Facebook with WebGL
Visiting Facebook friends in WebGL
Building a navigable world of Facebook friends
6
3D Reveals More Information
3D Reveals More Information
Mission briefing
Linking 3D to data
Comparing multiple stocks in 3D
Displaying historical stock data
Presenting comparative data
Zooming into the data – level of detail
Mission accomplished
7
Adapting Architecture, Medical, and Mechanical Engineering to Web3D
Adapting Architecture, Medical, and Mechanical Engineering to Web3D
Mission briefing
Demonstrating environment mapping for reflections
Bending of light – calculating refraction for surfaces such as water
Creating surfaces – depth, non-smooth, natural, and realistic with normal maps
Rendering a scene as a texture to view multiple cameras simultaneously
Mission accomplished
Hotshot challenges
8
3D Websites
3D Websites
Mission briefing
Building a 3D website
Creating engaging scenes
Portals to navigate virtual spaces
Mission accomplished
9
Education in the Third Dimension
Education in the Third Dimension
Mission briefing
Selecting locations on a texture map
Selecting locations from a rotated texture map and perspective correction
Selecting irregular shapes from a textured 3D mesh
Using WebGL to teach math
Mission accomplished
10
The New World of 3D Art
The New World of 3D Art
Mission briefing
Experiencing the art museum
Inventing interactive 3D art
Mission accomplished
Index
Index

Mission accomplished

This project introduced ways to visualize Big Data. We used XML data from external content providers, used online tools to parse the data, and presented the information in 3D. We could easily broaden this example to include other forms of data beyond stocks, such as demographic trends, geographical mapping, or data mining. Then we will begin to see why 3D is the best way to visualize Big Data.

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