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hare3d—Rendering Large
Models in the Browser
Christian Stein, Max Limper, Maik Thöner, and Johannes Behr
20.1 Introduction
Across the majority of business areas, Web technology seems to have become the pre-
dominant solution for creating powerful, platform-independent applications. On almost
any kind of client device and soware platform, a Web browser is able to provide stan-
dardized access to shared resources, stored in the cloud or local intranet. Lately, browsers
even became able to utilize the power of modern GPUs, using WebGL. As a consequence,
it is not surprising that many visualization and graphics applications are being ported
to ...