An impressive demonstration of the potential of WebGL.
May 312011
May 232011
Patrick Cozzi and Christophe Riccio are calling for proposals for a new book, Game Programming Gems style, but dedicated to OpenGL, GL ES, and Web GL, i.e. to the GL world. The site for the CFP contains a list of possible themes for contributions. The deadline for proposals is the 15th of August.
May 062011
Chrome Experiments – WebGL Globe. The Globe is a project for geographic data visualization. The project is open source and you are encouraged to use it to display your own world scattered data. Currently there are two samples: world population from 1990, 1995, 2000; and Google Search Visualization Volumes per language.
The Canvas 3D JS Libary (C3DL) is a JavaScript library that will make it easier to write 3D applications using WebGL. It provides a set of math, scene, and 3d object classes that makes WebGL more accessible for developers that want to develop 3D content in browser but do not want to have to deal in depth with the 3D math needed to make it work. Continue reading »
Mar 152011
The website Learning WebGL has a series of 15 lessons on WebGL starting with the configuration required to run WebGL, and ending with render to texture. This is a fairly complete tutorial, providing almost everything you need from getting started all the way to write complex applications. The tutorial covers the definition of geometry, including a loader, texturing, keyboard and mouse interactivity, lighting and some shaders.
Khronos Developer Presentations Library. The library has been updated with the presentations from GDC 2011, from the 28th of February to the 4th of March, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, USA.
The presentations cover OpenGL, OpenCL, WebGL, amongst other topics.
Mar 112011
Wow! Excellent graphics, hypnotising theme… Could look at it for hours… One of the best looking demos of 3D on the web I’ve ever seen.
Mar 112011
FastKat GL 0.2 alpha version. Another demo using WebGL.
You travel in an asteroid field and must avoid collisions. It’s just a demo, as pointed out on the site, but nicely done. Simple but effective.
Mar 102011
Fractal Lab, Interactive WebGL Fractal Explorer, is a very cool 3D web application. It can draw several types of fractals, both 3D and 2D, and it allows you to save the images produced.
The fractals are rendered using WebGL and GLSL with real time interactivity (at least for the simpler ones). The source code for the shaders is provided.
The number of iterations is configurable but beware the too many may hang up the whole system.
Khronos Releases Final WebGL 1.0 Specification.
Khronos™ Group released the final WebGL™ 1.0 specification to enable hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in HTML5 Web browsers without the need for plug-ins.
Links to authoring tools and WebGL demos can be found at www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Main_Page.
