Direct3DMicrosoft
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About
Direct3D is a low-level API for drawing primitives with the rendering pipeline, or for performing parallel operations with the compute shader. See the content below for more information. Direct3D 12 provides an API and platform that allows your application to take advantage of the graphics and computing capabilities of PCs equipped with one or more Direct3D 12-compatible GPUs. You can use Microsoft Direct3D 11 graphics to create 3-D graphics for games and scientific and desktop applications. DXGI handles enumerating graphics adapters, enumerating display modes, selecting buffer formats, sharing resources between processes, and presenting rendered frames to a window or monitor for display. HLSL is the high-level shader language for DirectX. Using HLSL, you can create C-like programmable shaders for the Direct3D pipeline. The DirectDraw surface file format (DDS) supports uncompressed and compressed (DXTn) textures, mipmaps, cube maps, and volume maps.
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About
OpenGL ES for the Web. WebGL is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES, exposed to ECMAScript via the HTML5 Canvas element. Developers familiar with OpenGL ES 2.0 will recognize WebGL as a Shader-based API using GLSL, with constructs that are semantically similar to those of the underlying OpenGL ES API. It stays very close to the OpenGL ES specification, with some concessions made for what developers expect out of memory-managed languages such as JavaScript. WebGL 1.0 exposes the OpenGL ES 2.0 feature set; WebGL 2.0 exposes the OpenGL ES 3.0 API. WebGL brings plugin-free 3D to the web, implemented right into the browser. Major browser vendors Apple (Safari), Google (Chrome), Microsoft (Edge), and Mozilla (Firefox) are members of the WebGL Working Group. Google Groups and StackOverflow discussions on developing with WebGL.
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Platforms Supported
Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
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Platforms Supported
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Mac
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iPad
Android
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Audience
People looking for a low-level API to draw triangles, lines or points per frame or to start highly parallel operations on the GPU
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Audience
Designers, visual artists and developers in need of a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES
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Training
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Company InformationMicrosoft
Founded: 1975
United States
docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3d
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Company InformationKHRONOS
United States
www.khronos.org/webgl/
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Integrations
ThumbmarkJS
Avaturn
Exclusive Addons
Gideros
Google
Google Chrome
Google Cloud Platform
Intratech 3D PDF Exporter
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Edge
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Integrations
ThumbmarkJS
Avaturn
Exclusive Addons
Gideros
Google
Google Chrome
Google Cloud Platform
Intratech 3D PDF Exporter
Microsoft 365
Microsoft Edge
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