Teaching Modern Computer Graphics

• Can be challenging depending on a student’s computing environment
  • Operating system, windowing system, compilers, libraries, … all contribute to initially unnecessary complexity

WebGL bypasses many of those issues

• “Windows” are one-liners in an HTML file
  • they’re just HTML5 canvas elements
• Applications are written in JavaScript
  • it’s just another curly-brace programming language
  • we use the simplest JavaScript possible