Browsing by Subject "3D rendering performance"

Browser based 3D applications have become more popular since the introduction of the Web Graphics Library (WebGL). However, they have some unique characteristics, such as the inability to access the local file system and the requirement to be executed in the browser’s scripting environment. These characteristics can introduce performance bottlenecks, and WebGL applications are also vulnerable to the same bottlenecks as traditional 3D applications. In this thesis, we aim to provide guidelines for designing WebGL applications by conducting a background survey and creating a benchmarking platform. Our experiments showed that loading model data from the browser’s execution environment to the GPU has the biggest impact on performance. Therefore, we recommend focusing on minimizing the amount of data that needs to be added to the scene when designing 3D WebGL applications. Additionally, we found that the amount of data rendered affects the severity of performance drops when loading model data to the GPU, and suggest actively managing the scene by only including relevant data in the rendering pipeline.