WebGL Beginner’s Guide

by: and Brandon Jones
Dive head first into 3D web application development using WebGL and JavaScript.

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.

Some topics included in this book

Getting started with WebGL
Rendering Geometry, Remote loading with JSON and AJAX
Lights, Cameras, Simple Animation
Colors, Depth Testing, and Alpha Blending
Textures, Picking
Post-processing techniques

Work In Progress

Dear Reader,

I am currently reviewing and updating the code examples of the WebGL Beginnner’s guide. The specification has evolved since I write the book and so has the implementation in the different browsers.

I have noticed that some examples present WebGL warnings and a few will not run across all browsers. Rest assured I will take care of updating them ASAP.

Also, there (is) was a bug in the file codeview.js that impedes the source code to show nicely formatted in Chrome. I think I found the problem and (~~I will be updating that file soon~~) it is fixed now!

Thanks,

Diego