You're reading from Learn Three.js - Fourth Edition Program 3D animations and visualizations for the web with JavaScript and WebGL

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803233871

Pages 554 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Concepts

Front End Web Development

Author (1):

Jos Dirksen

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Up and Running

2. Chapter 1: Creating Your First 3D Scene with Three.js FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Basic Components that Make up a Three.js Application

4. Chapter 3: Working with Light Sources in Three.js

5. Part 2: Working with the Three.js Core Components

6. Chapter 4: Working with Three.js Materials

7. Chapter 5: Learning to Work with Geometries

8. Chapter 6: Exploring Advanced Geometries

9. Chapter 7: Points and Sprites

10. Part 3: Particle Clouds, Loading and Animating Models

11. Chapter 8: Creating and Loading Advanced Meshes and Geometries

12. Chapter 9: Animation and Moving the Camera

13. Chapter 10: Loading and Working with Textures

14. Part 4: Post-Processing, Physics, and Sounds

15. Chapter 11: Render Postprocessing

16. Chapter 12: Adding Physics and Sounds to Your Scene

17. Chapter 13: Working with Blender and Three.js

18. Chapter 14: Three.js Together with React, TypeScript, and Web-XR

19. Index

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