Reader small image

You're reading from  Learning Three.js - the JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL

Product typeBook
Published inMar 2015
Reading LevelIntermediate
Publisher
ISBN-139781784392215
Edition1st Edition
Languages
Right arrow
Author (1)
Jos Dirksen
Jos Dirksen
author image
Jos Dirksen

Jos Dirksen has worked as a software developer and architect for almost two decades. He has a lot of experience in many technologies, ranging from backend technologies, such as Java and Scala, to frontend development using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript. Besides working with these technologies, Jos regularly speaks at conferences and likes to write about new and interesting technologies on his blog. He also likes to experiment with new technologies and see how they can best be used to create beautiful data visualizations. Previously, Jos has worked in many different roles in the private and public sectors, ranging from private companies such as ING, ASML, Malmberg, and Philips to organizations in the public sector, such as the Department of Defense and the Port of Rotterdam.
Read more about Jos Dirksen

Right arrow

Creating a scene


In the previous chapter, you created THREE.Scene, so you already know the basics of Three.js. We saw that for a scene to show anything, we need three types of components:

Component

Description

Camera

This determines what is rendered on the screen.

Lights

These have an effect on how materials are shown and used when creating shadow effects (discussed in detail in Chapter 3, Working with the Different Light Sources Available in Three.js).

Objects

These are the main objects that are rendered from the perspective of the camera: cubes, spheres, and the like.

THREE.Scene serves as the container for all these different objects. This object itself doesn't have that many options and functions.

Note

THREE.Scene is a structure that is sometimes also called a scene graph. A scene graph is a structure that can hold all necessary information of a graphical scene. In Three.js, this means that THREE.Scene contains all the objects, lights, and other objects necessary for rendering...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Learning Three.js - the JavaScript 3D Library for WebGL
Published in: Mar 2015Publisher: ISBN-13: 9781784392215

Author (1)

author image
Jos Dirksen

Jos Dirksen has worked as a software developer and architect for almost two decades. He has a lot of experience in many technologies, ranging from backend technologies, such as Java and Scala, to frontend development using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and Typescript. Besides working with these technologies, Jos regularly speaks at conferences and likes to write about new and interesting technologies on his blog. He also likes to experiment with new technologies and see how they can best be used to create beautiful data visualizations. Previously, Jos has worked in many different roles in the private and public sectors, ranging from private companies such as ING, ASML, Malmberg, and Philips to organizations in the public sector, such as the Department of Defense and the Port of Rotterdam.
Read more about Jos Dirksen