CS 4621: Lecture 7

Textures

• Texture is another means to pass information from Javascript to WebGL.
• A texture is an image that you can plaster onto a geometric primitive to give it high-frequency varying surface details, not just the interpolated smooth stuffs you get from rasterization.

Exhibits

• #0: Using a Texture
• #1: Texture Parameters
• #2: Minification Parameters and Textured 3D Mesh
• #3: Loading and Using More Than One Texture
• #4: Textures and Transparency