WebGL: 3D on the Web

Alejandro (a.k.a KZKG^Gaara)

2 minutes

 WebGL (from its acronym in English, "Web Graphics Library") allows displaying hardware accelerated 3D graphics on web pages, without the need for plug-ins, on any platform that supports OpenGL 2.0 or OpenGL ES 2.0. Technically it is a API for javascript which allows to use the native implementation of OpenGL ES 2.0 that will be incorporated into browsers.


Unlike Flash, WebGL does not require plug-ins. Not only that, it also allows browsers to run 3D accelerated graphics based on the free OpenGL standard. If we add the power of WebGL to the new HTML5, we can realize that we are one step away from Web 3.0. Games embedded in the browser, 3D web pages, spectacular graphics ... all without the need for extra installations, plugins or configurations, just our beloved browser.

WebGL is managed by the non-profit technology consortium Khronos Group. Although the idea was originally developed by Mozilla, currently, the WebGL working group includes Apple, Google, Mozilla and Opera, and WebGL is already present in the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Fennec, Google Chrome, Opera and also in the version of Safari built into OS X Lion (Safari 5.1). Microsoft? IE? IE9 is fast, much more secure, has a nice and simplified interface and implements all the latest web technologies and standards to have a complete and modern browsing experience as a Windows user. Just a moment! Everyone? No, not all. There is no sign of WebGL in IE9. In the meantime, ALL major competing browsers have long been adopting this technology and working on its implementation. It has been 1 year since the WebGL 1.0 standard was published… and Microsoft continues with its boycott attempt.

 Applications based on this technology already abound on the web: from online games to maps of the human body. Several months ago, for example, Google decided to publish a version of Google Maps with support for WebGL:

WebGL Demo Repository

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  1.   Ivan Escobares said
    ago 11 years

    Excellent, I did not know about this .. The display of the maps has improved a lot. But in my case. In Godoy Cruz, Mendoza, the mappings it has are a bit old .. Easy, they are 5 months behind schedule ..

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  2.   us said
    ago 11 years

    The only problem with getting to web3.0 is our friend Bill gates (the account of the door) and his cronies from mokosoft. An inept technologist who only knows how to take it for granted, searching like a miser for his bill_etitos and hiding his intellectual deficiencies with his cheap mischief. He has, because he still runs the monster, a team of Slavs who believe they are free to offer the user an interface where the bars are not visible. It has taken a long time but other browsers have realized that the evolutionary step on the internet is to get to work multidimensionally with information, the management and organizational power to generate knowledge is unlimited. On a screen you have that, a two-dimensionality but in a cube you have 6 faces. It is good that the markets delay us, turn off and disappoint our creations, damn you, useless worms that you crawl through the mud. Long live the free and multidimensional Internet !!!

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