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The scene is bland and could use some lighting so let's implement that. First we start with the...

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I was hoping to get to new features but it seems like there was just too much I wanted to fix up in...

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For this chapter I wanted to take a pause. The code before was spelled out but could be a little...

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Next let's explore textures. We'll try to recreate the globe from the WebGL chapter. The first...

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For the next part I wanted to improve how I generate meshes. From WebGL we generated objects with...

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After putting this project in storage for a while, WebGPU is now at a place where I feel I can really...

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One thing that we haven't done is some benchmarking. For this I though I'd start with a simple...

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Last time I created a simple autograd. It's interesting but also not super usable. This is because...

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I had actually wanted part 2 to be a WebGPU implementation and started poking at the CUDA version...

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One of the things I'd like to get a little more into is machine learning. The sticking point I...

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When dealing with code on the GPU one of the more difficult things is that you have very few ways to...

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Last time we wrote a simple tokenizer and tried to make a subset of the most used javascript tokens. ...

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Several projects I'm working on require parsing. While there are goto packages that do this work...

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So far we have a server-rendered react application but sometimes it's nice to just have some flat...

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Poking around with some web frameworks like Next and Astro I was posed the question of how hard is...

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Last time we looked at WASM and the interesting SIMD capability. One question we could ask was...

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Fast Matrix Math 2 Last time we looked a number of ways to add two matrices starting from...

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There's a lot of ways to represent matrix math in JS. Some are readable and some are fast. I wanted...

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Writing pure client-side apps is good in theory but you still need a local server as file-based urls...

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While researching some WASM/WASI stuff I was trying to get my app to run in a variety of environments...

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Last episode, I explored different ways to change a bump map into a normal map and we touched a bit...

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Last time we went through the process of using bump-maps. Using normal maps is very similar. So...

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I remember back in the PS2, Gamecube, Xbox days gaming enthusiasts were crazy about bump-mapping and...

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One of the biggest limitations that the engine has right now is that it can only generate geometry...

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Zips are a pretty common and ubiquitous format for compression. You've probably gotten them as...

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I fell down a rabbit hole lately into the world of vTubers. The concept actually isn't too weird,...

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I ran into an interesting post on the WICG (the official place for nobodies to propose web features)...

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The next thing I'd like to add to our basic engine is some environment. That is, a background. In...

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So I made a bit of mistake before by thinking that I could just apply the model space transformation...

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So far we can create spheres and planes. We want to extend this to triangles so we can start using...