WebGL: Up and Running 1st by Parisi, Tony (2012) Paperback

by Tony Parisi

Excellent Book

Genres: Programming, Computer Science

Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Bryan Ma · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book was about general capacities of WebGL filtered through deprecated functionality of three.js filtered through an odd wrapper of three.js in the author's sim.js framework. That said, I probably read this 5 years late. It did a good job of walking through what is possible, but it's probably better to thoroughly read the three.js resources themselves at this point.

[Ahmed Sayed · Rating 2 out of 5]

Old book for these days, the syntax of code is changed form 2012. I would to highlight that the basic of 3D is explained. I would recommend it if you beginner but if you have other modern choice go for it

[Sriram · Rating 3 out of 5]

Too much emphasis on three.js

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

A broad rather than deep book, it's meant for a beginner both to computer graphics and to WebGL.

The only thing I didn't like about this book was the Sim.JS framework the author came up with to simplify Three.js development. Besides being oddly class-based, I found that it obscured important details that beginners should be learning by rote practice. I used it for a few projects and then abandoned it.

[Miko Chang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clear explanation and step-by-step instructions in using WebGL for web page. Source codes are updated and available in Github. Good to know some basic HTML, CSS before reading.