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WebGL Insights
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WebGL Insights

by Patrick Cozzi
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
416 pages
16h 58m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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2
Mozilla’s Implementation
of WebGL
Benoit Jacob, Jeff Gilbert, and Vladimir Vukicevic
2.1 Introduction
A typical implementation of WebGL in a browser has to implement this API on top of
systemgraphics APIs such as OpenGL, OpenGL ES, or Direct3D. us, WebGL is eectively
an additional layer on top of OpenGL or other similar APIs, potentially adding overhead.
Some understanding of what kind of work takes place in a browser’s WebGL implementa-
tionmay help application developers write better code that suers from less overhead.
Figure 2.1 gives a general overview of Mozilla’s WebGL implementation. Over the
course of this chapter, we will touch ...
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