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  • Introduction
  • Getting Started
    • Project setup 🟢
    • Hello WebGPU 🟢
    • Adapter and Device
      • The Adapter 🟢
      • The Device 🟢
    • The Command Queue 🟢
    • Opening a window 🟢
    • First Color 🟢
    • C++ wrapper 🟢
  • Basic 3D Rendering
    • Hello Triangle 🟢
    • Input Geometry
      • Playing with buffers 🟢
      • A first Vertex Attribute 🟢
      • Multiple Attributes 🟢
      • Index Buffer 🟢
      • Loading from file 🟢
    • Shader Uniforms
      • A first uniform 🟢
      • More uniforms 🟢
      • Dynamic uniforms 🟡
    • 3D Meshes
      • A simple example 🟡
      • Depth buffer 🟡
      • Transformation matrices 🟡
      • Projection matrices 🟡
      • Basic shading 🟡
      • Loading from file 🟡
    • Texturing
      • A first texture 🟡
      • Texture mapping 🟡
      • Sampler 🟡
      • Loading from file 🟡
    • Some interaction
      • Refactoring 🟡
      • Resizing the window 🟡
      • Camera control 🟡
      • Simple GUI 🟡
      • Lighting control 🟡🟢
    • Lighting and Material
      • Specularity 🟡
      • Normal mapping 🟡
      • Image-Based Lighting (🟠WIP)
      • Cube Maps (🟠WIP)
      • Physically-Based Materials (🟠WIP)
  • Basic Compute
    • Compute Pipeline 🟡
    • Image Processing
      • Mipmap Generation 🟡
      • Convolution Filters 🟡
      • Cubemap Conversion (🟠WIP)
      • Cubemap Prefiltering (🟠WIP)
    • Procedural Geometry
      • Deformation (🟠WIP)
    • Neural Networks (🔴TODO)
  • Advanced Techniques
    • Instanced Drawing (🔴TODO)
    • RAII 🟡
    • Screen capture (🟠WIP)
    • Headless context 🟡
    • High Dynamic Range Textures (🟠WIP)
    • Benchmarking
      • Time 🟡
      • Memory (🔴TODO)
      • Processing Units (🔴TODO)
      • Environmental Impact (🔴TODO)
    • Deferred Shading (🔴TODO)
    • Render Bundles (🔴TODO)
    • Multi-Sampling (🔴TODO)
    • Scene tree (🔴TODO)
    • Shadow maps (🔴TODO)
    • Tesselation (🔴TODO)
    • Raytracing (🔴TODO)
  • Appendices
    • Teaching native graphics in 2023 🟢
    • Keep in mind lower-end devices 🟢
    • Feedback needed 🟢
    • Building for the Web 🟡
    • Using SDL for Window Management 🟡
    • Custom Extensions
      • The extension mechanism (🟠WIP)
      • With wgpu-native (🟠WIP)
      • With Dawn (🟠WIP)
    • Debugging (🟠WIP)
    • Memory Model (🔴TODO)
    • References (🟠WIP)
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  • Learn WebGPU
    • Introduction
    • Getting Started
      • Project setup 🟢
      • Hello WebGPU 🟢
      • Adapter and Device
        • The Adapter 🟢
        • The Device 🟢
      • The Command Queue 🟢
      • Playing with buffers 🟢
      • Dealing with errors 🟢
      • Our first shader 🟢
      • Opening a window 🟢
      • First Color 🟢
      • C++ wrapper 🟠
    • Basic 3D Rendering
      • Hello Triangle 🟢
      • Input Geometry
        • A first Vertex Attribute 🟢
        • Multiple Attributes 🟢
        • Index Buffer 🟢
        • Loading from file 🟢
      • Shader Uniforms
        • A first uniform 🟢
        • More uniforms 🟢
        • Dynamic uniforms 🟢
      • 3D Meshes
        • A simple example 🟢
        • Depth buffer 🟢
        • Transformation matrices 🟢
        • Projection matrices 🟠
    • Basic Compute
      • Introduction to compute shaders 🔴
    • Appendices
      • Futures and asynchronous operations 🔴
      • Writing a zero-overhead C++ wrapper 🟠
      • Color space issues 🟠
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