Three.js essentials : create and animate beautiful 3D graphics with this fast-paced tutorial /: create and animate beautiful 3D graphics with this fast-paced tutorial. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jos Dirksen.
• Other Names: Dirksen, Jos
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgment; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Get Up and Running with Three.js; Introducing Three.js; Looking at the requirements for Three.js; Setting up a local development environment; Getting the source code; Setting up a local web server; Using Python to run a web server; Using the npm command from Node.js to run a web server; Running a portable version of Mongoose; Creating a minimal Three.js web application; Creating a scene to contain all the objects; Adding a mesh created from geometry. What are vertices?Combining vertices into faces; Enhancing the basic scene; Adding easy controls with the dat. GUI library; Add a statistics element to show the frame rate; Debugging the examples in this book; Using console logging for debugging; Looking at objects with breakpoints in Chrome; Summary; Chapter 2: Creating a 3D World Globe and Visualizing Open Data; Setting up the globe and camera controls; Adding basic textures to the globe; Adding directional and ambient lighting; Combining with a starry background; Improving the look with more advanced textures. Using a normal map to simulate elevationsUsing a specular map to define the reflectivity of an area; Adding 2D information using HTML canvas as a texture; Summary; Chapter 3: Navigate around a Randomly Generated Maze; The result we're aiming for in this chapter; Creating the maze; Generating a maze layout; Converting the layout to a 3D set of objects; Animating the cube; The standard Three.js rotation behavior; Creating an edge rotation using matrix-based transformation; Using Tween.js to add an animation; Setting up collision detection; Selecting objects; Detecting collisions. Adding textures and improving lightingAdding a repeating texture; Setting up the light sources; Adding trackball and keyboard controls; Adding trackball controls to the camera; Configuring keyboard controls; Summary; Chapter 4: Visualizing Audio Data with a Particle System; Visualizing the audio volume; Setting up the HTML5 Web Audio API; Creating a particle system; Playing a sound and animating the particle system; Creating a particle system by hand; Web Audio's configuration and the render loop; Creating waves with a custom geometry; Customizing colors of individual particles. Coloring individual particlesColoring the particles based on the amplitude; Combining dynamic colors to create advanced visualizations; Setting up the initial particle system; Calculating volumes for each range; Determining particles that need to be updated and setting the height and color of an individual particle; Summary; Chapter 5: Programmatic Geometries; Creating a 3D terrain from scratch; Generating a terrain with Math.random(); Generating a terrain with a perlin noise; Adding a texture; Creating a JavaScript object with constructor; Creating a city from scratch.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, UK : Packt Pub
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume), illustrations
• Subjects: 005.133; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- JavaScript; JavaScript (Computer program language); WebGL (Computer program language); Application software -- Development; Web sites -- Design; JavaScript (Computer program language); WebGL (Computer program language); Application software -- Development; Web sites -- Design; Application software -- Development -- Computer programs; Computer graphics; Application software -- Development; JavaScript (Computer program language); Web sites -- Design; WebGL (Computer program language); JavaScript (Computer program language); WebGL (Computer program language); Application software / Development; Web sites / Design; COMPUTERS -- Web -- Browsers; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783980871; 1783980877; 1783980869; 9781783980864
• Related ISBNs: 9781783980864
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from cover(Safari, viewed July 31, 2014).
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