The ingredients
- Meshes — shapes made of many small triangles: a chess piece, a card, a maze wall.
- Materials — how a surface looks: its colour, how shiny or rough it is, and any picture (texture) printed on it.
- Lights — virtual sun and sky lights, which also cast shadows.
- A camera — the point of view. Dragging or pinching on our boards moves this camera.
Frames
The computer redraws the scene about 60 times a second. Movement — a piece sliding, a die tumbling — is a position changing slightly from one frame to the next.
In the browser
Modern browsers can use the graphics chip through WebGL. The ZIBADISPLAY games use three.js, an open-source library that makes WebGL easier to use, served from this site itself. Everything runs on your own device; nothing you do is sent anywhere.
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ZIBADISPLAY — the entertainment reference of the ZIBADIS network, founded by Masoud Moghaddam.
