Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing meeting certain criteria That’s what shadow libraries do - collect and share as many books as

In May 2022, someone posted to Hacker News Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog post explaining how mechanical watch movements work. Since then, his blog has been my absolute favorite corner of the Internet.

Gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.

This text is about learning modern OpenGL through an online book that covers basic, intermediate, and advanced knowledge with clear examples and practical concepts. The content is freely available online and in print, with the aim of providing a complete and easy-to-understand platform for graphics programming enthusiasts. Readers will learn core graphics aspects, useful techniques, and even create a small game based on the obtained OpenGL knowledge.

WebGL is a 3D API that works as a rasterization engine, requiring users to provide code for rendering points, lines, and triangles. Users must create vertex and fragment shaders to control how WebGL processes and displays graphics. The WebGL API simplifies rendering by executing user-created functions to draw basic shapes like triangles.

The text explains how WebGL processes vertices to create triangles and render them with pixels using shaders. Varyings are used to pass data from the vertex shader to the fragment shader for color interpolation. Buffers are essential for transferring vertex data to the GPU for rendering, and attribute locations are assigned to specify how to extract and use this data efficiently.