Learning WebGL

• Planning to be at SIGGRAPH? There will be a BoF session on WebGL; details here.
• The slides and videos for the first WebGL Camp in Europe are now online.
• Jos Dirksen has put together a visualisation of European interest rates during the recent financial crisis using Three.js.
• A neat new CubicVR.js demo from Charles Cliffe: a landscape editor (version with more space here).
• Another great demo from Felix Woitzel: a fluid simulation using 512k particles. (via WebGL.com)
• Here’s a great demo of the new OvoiD.js WebGL engine: Fireworks! (via WebGL.com)
• Another from WebGL.com: Dennis Levonenko’s Starris, “based on Space invader and Geometry wars”.
• Also via WebGL.com, “BreadShip is a WebGL game created by Jason (?) according to whom, it’s ‘an old game that I stopped working on. WASD to move, QE to roll, and right click to lock on to an enemy. Destroy 50 bosses to win.’”.
• ThreeFab is an online tool (kind of like a simplified Blender) for creating Three.js scenes, and Jeff Terrace has added the ablity to handle COLLADA files via drag and drop and from external URLs.
• A neat Three.js demo from Plus 360 Degrees: Car Visualizer.
• From AlteredQualia — some characters from Team Fortress 2, in Three.js.
• OpenGL’s immediate mode is inefficient and as such isn’t implemented in WebGL. But it can make prototyping easier, so here’s a demo by Alejandro Mosquera showing how you can use Evan Wallace’s lightgl library to emulate some of its features.
• Want a smooth page-turning effect in your web pages? Check out Ivan Kuckir’s Flipr.
• Chrome-only, but very cool: “ThreeAudio helps you create music visualizations in Three.js, by exposing audio data in GLSL shaders.” Demo here (takes a while to load, so be patient). (via badass javascript)

Got a WebGL demo or link that you want me to put in next week’s roundup? Leave a comment below, or drop me a line!