Table of Contents
Contents
Chapter 1. An overview of WebGL
Advantages of WebGL
WebGL is derived from OpenGL
The Software Architecture of WebGL Applications
WebGL-enabled Browsers and Their Settings
Sample Programs and Related Links
Summary
Chapter 2. Your First Step with WebGL
What Is a Canvas?
The World’s Shortest WebGL Program: Clear Drawing Area
Draw a Point (1)
Draw a Point (2)
Draw a Point with a Mouse Click
Change the Point Color
Summary
Chapter 3. Drawing and Transforming Triangles
Drawing Multiple Points
Hello Triangle
Moving, Rotating and Scaling
Summary
Chapter 4. More Transformations and Basic Animation
Translate and then Rotate
Animation
Summary
Chapter 5. Using Colors and Texture Images
Passing other Types of Information to Vertex Shaders
Color Triangle (ColoredTriangle.js)
Pasting an Image onto a Rectangle
Pasting Multiple Textures to a Shape
Summary
Chapter 6. The OpenGL ES Shading Language (GLSL ES)
A recap of Basic Shader Programs
An overview of GLSL ES
Hello Shader!
Data (Numerical and Boolean Values)
Variables
GLSL ES is a Type Sensitive GLSL ES is a Type Sensitive Language
Basic Types
Vector Types and Matrix Types
Structures
Arrays
Samplers
Precedence of Operators
Conditional Control Flow and Iteration
Functions
Built-In Functions
Global Variables and Local Variables
Storage Qualifiers
Precision Qualifiers
Preprocessor Directives
Summary
Chapter 7. Towards the 3D World [This content is currently in development.]
Chapter 8. Lighting and Hierarchical Objects [This content is currently in development.]
Chapter 9. Advanced Techniques [This content is currently in development.]
Appendix A. No Need to Swap Buffers in WebGL [This content is currently in development.]
Appendix B. Built-in Functions of GLSL ES 1.0 [This content is currently in development.]
Appendix C. Projection Matrices [This content is currently in development.]
Appendix D. WebGL/OpenGL: left or right handed? [This content is currently in development.]
Appendix E. The Inverse Transpose Matrix [This content is currently in development.]
Appendix F. Loading Shader Programs from Disk [This content is currently in development.]