Today I took a deep breath and plunged into the deep waters that are WebGPU. This is the newer way, years in the making, to get your computer’s hardware accelerator to do 3D graphics super fast in a Web page.<\/p>\n
In the summer of 2013 I switched from Java to WebGL, and that has sufficed for the last 13 years. But WebGL is limited, and WebGPU is both much more powerful and much more flexible.<\/p>\n
It’s also a lot more complicated, both to learn and to use. But hey, if somebody gives you a brand new Ferrari, you probably should not turn it down just because your bicycle is easier to operate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I took a deep breath and plunged into the deep waters that are WebGPU. This is the newer way, years in the making, to get your computer’s hardware accelerator to do 3D graphics super fast in a Web page. In the summer of 2013 I switched from Java to WebGL, and that has sufficed … Continue reading “WebGPU”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28434,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28433\/revisions\/28434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}