Now here’s something that’s been done a thousand times before in a thousand different ways! Sometimes it’s good to re-invent the wheel so you can learn something new My purpose for this demo was to experiment with vertex and fragment shaders. They’re very powerful tools that allow you to create the most amazing effects. Click [...]

In my previous post about X3DOM I covered some of the very basics. I used a <Box> object and slapped a Twitter avatar on it. In this post I’m going to use the <IndexedFaceSet> element to create geometry dynamically. Read them pixels For this example I’ve used a PHP-script that loads an image, resizes it [...]

After the WebGL BoF at Siggraph I spoke to some people from the Web3D consortium and the Fraunhofer institute. This was quite interesting. The Fraunhofer institute is working on an X3D WebGL implementation called X3DOM. Basically it means that you can set up a 3D scene as part of any HTML5 DOM tree. This should [...]

Tomorrow I’m off to Los Angeles do one of the WebGL BoF talks at Siggraph. I’m very excited to be part of this. My talk will be about the opportunities WebGL has to offer to us as a creative agency. I’ve been working with WebGL a lot lately. A lot of experimentation but also some [...]

I’m a jQuery newbie so I thought I’d try it out in combination with WebGL. It makes a great example together with the GLGE library for WebGL. Mind you, there are better ways to do tunnels in 3D. This demo is meant to demonstrate how specific things work with GLGE. An explanation of what’s going [...]

In a previous tutorial I explained how to draw a triangle on the screen with pure low-level WebGL. A lot had to be done before anything could be drawn to the screen: define shaders, set up matrices, create shader programs, depth testing, vertex attributes, etc. Pretty interesting stuff if you’re into the technical details of [...]

NOTE: This OpenGL ES 1.1 framework isn’t maintained anymore. Check out the OpenGL ES 2.0 Rajawali framework which also supports live wallpapers. These two examples show how you can clone animated objects with min3D. The first example makes a shallow copy of the object. All the vertices, normals and texture coordinates are shared between all the [...]

NOTE: This OpenGL ES 1.1 framework isn’t maintained anymore. Check out the OpenGL ES 2.0 Rajawali framework which also supports live wallpapers. I just updated min3D for Android with an MD2 file importer.  MD2 is a format that was developed by ID Software and originally used for Quake II and other games. MD2 can be used [...]

NOTE: This OpenGL ES 1.1 framework isn’t maintained anymore. Check out the OpenGL ES 2.0 Rajawali framework which also supports live wallpapers. Another update to the min3D framework for Android. A new parser that allows you to load in 3DS files (used by the Autodesk 3ds Max 3D modeling, animation and rendering software). In the previous [...]

NOTE: This OpenGL ES 1.1 framework isn’t maintained anymore. Check out the OpenGL ES 2.0 Rajawali framework which also supports live wallpapers. I just committed an update to min3D‘s .obj file parser.  Yesterday’s tutorial showed how you can import an .obj file into min3D. The latest commit adds support for multiple files in one .obj file. [...]