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WebGL Hotshot
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WebGL Hotshot

by Mitch Williams
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
306 pages
8h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Comparing multiple stocks in 3D

After parsing and displaying the data from a single stock, we will now display the data from multiple stocks in a single scene. The level of programming jumps significantly when we grow from showing just a single stock value to showing two or more. We shall do this now by showing data from five stocks.

Engage thrusters

Not surprisingly, growing from displaying one stock to five stocks means that we have to deploy an array constructed with the global variable var stockBoxObject = [];. We will build the boxes that will represent our stock data inside webGLStart():

stockBoxObject[0] = AddMeshObject("texturedBox0", "texturedBox.obj",[-5.5, -3.0, -16.0], [1, 1, 1], [0, 0, 0], false ); …… stockBoxObject[4] = AddMeshObject("texturedBox4", ...
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ISBN: 9781783280919