This week's Wednesday Evening Training: Taking a deep dive in WebGL coloring and continuing our BabylonJS labs

In this week's Wednesday Evening Training we continued our exploration of WebGL and BabylonJS.

A deep dive into coloring in WebGL and continuing our BabylonJS labs

Quincy Jacobs took us on a deep dive into WebGL and showed us how to add color to objects. Combining the Color and Position Vertex Buffers involves quite a bit of math. In order to polish up our mathematics in that area, we have planned a refresher hour for the Wednesday Evening Training on WebGL (that will be October 10th) . We also took plenty of time for our BabylonJS labs. Based on the labs we did last week, we experimented with diffferent camera's, light sources and materials. We also experimented with parent and child objects and did a bit of animation. More of that also on October 10th, then I'll give a demo of my BabylonJS prototype in which an Archimate model view (using the free Archi editor) is converted into a BabylonJS 3D model. For complex architectures, 3D modelling may give more insight than plain 2D models. Worth doing some experiments to see whether this is a good approach!

Further reading

Do you want to read more on the topics in this post? Here are some links…

Quincy's WebGL explanations and examples on GitHub: https://github.com/QuincyJacobs/WebGLTutorial
Building up a basic demo with Babylon.js: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Techniques/3D_on_the_web/Building_up_a_basic_demo_with_Babylon.js
A practical intro to BabylonJS (presentation): https://www.slideshare.net/HansRontheWeb/a-practical-intro-to-babylonjs-115869611

See also the BabylonJS links in my previous posts in the Wednesday Evening Training.

Past Wednesday Evening Trainings

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Next week 's Wednesday Evening Training

Next week 's Wednesday Evening Training In next week's Wednesday Evening Training, one of our security experts, Vince Corona, will give us some more examples of hacking and explain us the importance of security in ICT. In the previous session, we already had a great intro on security in which he explained and demoed some basic hacking scenario's.
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