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WebGL HOTSHOT

By : Mitch Williams

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WebGL HOTSHOT

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By: Mitch Williams

Overview of this book

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

Free Chapter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3D Websites

3D Websites

Mission briefing

Building a 3D website

Creating engaging scenes

Portals to navigate virtual spaces

Mission accomplished

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

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

Chapter 9. Education in the Third Dimension

	"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
	--Galileo Galilei

3D graphics for education just seems natural. What better way to learn than through experiential knowledge. And what better way to experience, aside from actually being on-location, than in a 3D environment. In fact, a 3D environment might be better than reality because virtual worlds can perform worst-case scenarios and test the extremes without any actual damage. We can simulate weak building structures, the effects of fire spreading, or navigation errors without a physical collapse, real destruction, or loss of life, such as training to avoid a plane crash.

Imagine not only learning a foreign language or reading a novel, but actually walking through a 3D virtual town in another country or a Shakespeare setting. We could also walk into microscopic spaces such as the heart or brain, or macroscopic spaces such as experiencing...

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