Practical WebGPU Graphics: Creating Advanced Graphics on Web Using WebGPU - the Next-Generation Graphics API
About this ebook
The book starts by taking you through the WebPack-TypeScript template for building the WebGPU apps and then shows you the WebGPU basics, shader program, GPU buffer, and rendering pipeline. Next, you will learn how to create primitives and simple objects in WebGPU. As you progress through the chapters, you will get to grips with advanced WebGPU topics, including 3D transformation, lighting calculation, colormaps, and textures. At the same time, you will learn how to create advanced 3D WebGPU objects, including various 3D wireframes, 3D shapes, simple and parametric 3D surfaces with colormaps and textures, as well as 3D surface plots and fractal graphics described by complex functions. In addition, you will explore new WebGPU features, such as compute shader and storage buffer, and how to use them to simulate large particle systems.
By the end of this book, you will have the skill you need to build your own GPU-accelerated graphics and computing on the web with the WebGPU API.
The book includes:
- Template based on WebPack and TypeScript for developing WebGPU apps.
- WebGPU basics, GLSL and WGSL shaders, and rendering pipeline.
- Create primitives and simple shapes in WebGPU.
- 3D transformations, model, viewing, projection, and various coordinate systems.
- GPU buffers, uniform buffer objects, animation, and camera controls.
- Normal vectors, lighting model, ambient, diffuse, and specular light calculations.
- UV coordinates, texture mapping.- Color model, colormaps, and color interpolation.
- Create 3D shapes, wireframes, surfaces, and 3D charts.
- Create 3D plots and fractal graphics using complex functions.
- Compute shaders, storage buffers, and large particle system simulation.
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About the author
Dr. Jack Xu has a PhD in theoretical physics. He has over 25 years programming experience in C, C++, Matlab, C#, WPF, ASP.NET, Angular, JavaScript frameworks, specializing in numerical computation methods, algorithms, graphical user interfaces, and web applications. Recently, he works as a quantitative analyst and developer on Wall Street, and is responsible for quantitative analysis, back-testing, trading strategy development, and real-time trading system design and implementation.
You can visit his website at https://drxudotnet.com for more information about Dr. Xu's book.
He also creates a charts and graphics playground at gincker.com/graphics, which allows users to create various charts and graphics by simply entering a math formula, pasting a dataset, or uploading a data file; and without the need to write a single line of code.
He also created a YouTube Channel on Practical Programming at: https://www.youtube.com/
