WebGL
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WebGL (short for Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. WebGL is fully integrated with other web standards, allowing GPU-accelerated usage of physics, image processing, and effects in the HTML canvas. WebGL elements can be mixed with other HTML elements and composited with other parts of the page or page background.
Key facts
- Software.name
- WebGL
- Software.title
- WebGL
- Software.logo
- WebGL Logo.svg
- Software.logo size
- x64px
- Software.caption
- Screenshot from a WebGL-based application running in Google Chrome
- Software.author
- Mozilla Foundation
- Software.developer
- Khronos WebGL Working Group
- Software.latest_release_version
- 2.1
- Software.platform
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- API
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.khronos.org/webgl
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- official demo URL
- get.webgl.org
- user manual URL
- www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Main_Page
- software version identifier
- 2.0
- Commons category
- WebGL
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/webgl
- name in kana
- ウェブジーエル
- inception
- 2011-03-03
- described at URL
- marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/vCCqBR
- official wiki URL
- www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Main_Page
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15 sectionsContents
- Design
- History
- Implementations
- Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine
- Software
- Desktop browsers
- Mobile browsers
- Tools and ecosystem
- Utilities
- Games
- Content creation
- Environment-based tools
- See also
- References
- External links
WebGL (short for Web Graphics Library) is a JavaScript API for rendering interactive 2D and 3D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins. WebGL is fully integrated with other web standards, allowing GPU-accelerated usage of physics, image processing, and effects in the HTML canvas. WebGL elements can be mixed with other HTML elements and composited with other parts of the page or page background.
WebGL programs consist of control code written in JavaScript, and shader code written in OpenGL ES Shading Language (GLSL ES, sometimes referred to as ESSL), a language similar to C or C++. WebGL code is executed on a computer's GPU.