What Happened Manim now runs entirely in the browser with WebGPU. The demo on https://studio.academa.ai/ shows that complex math animations can be rendered client‑side at speeds comparable to native apps. By calling the GPU directly, the browser handles thousands of vertices, high‑resolution textures, and real‑time shading without a server. The release bundles a web editor, a runtime library, and…
WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial
Welcome to "WebGPU Unleashed" - your gateway to the dynamic world of graphics programming. This free book will teach you graphics programming in JavaScript using WebGPU, drawing from my own learning journey.
Why did I write this book? Recently, a friend asked me what his child should learn to get started with graphics programming. A few years ago, OpenGL was…
I run Web3DSurvey.com as a community service. It collects real-world WebGL, WebGL 2, and WebGPU capability data so 3D web developers can pick features from measured support rates instead of guessing. I have written about why I built it and what the v2 rewrite added. This post is about a different question people keep asking me: what does it cost to run, and how does the pipeline hold up?
In April…
A practical introduction to WebGPU, WGSL, render pipelines, compute shaders, and the future of high-performance graphics on the web. Your browser can stream 4K video, run a complete code editor, render complex 3D scenes, and host multiplayer games. But for years, web developers accessed the GPU through an API based on an older generation of graphics programming. WebGPU changes that contract. WebG…
