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I like https://github.com/evanw/lightgl.js

learnt from https://jamie-wong.com/2016/08/05/webgl-fluid-simulation/#im...

  the elegant lightgl.js, which is an abstraction layer on top of WebGL that makes it much nicer to work with. Unlike THREE.js, it doesn’t make any assumptions about you wanting any concept of a camera or lighting or that you’re working in 3D at all.

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Key highlight for anyone unfamiliar with web graphics technologies reading this comment and interested in trying one out themselves: as mentioned above, lightgl only abstracts WebGL and this is different than the more flexible WebGPU Shadeup abstracts. One example of the difference is the fluid sim example in lightgl/WebGL has to be written as pixel based shaders (meant to do operations on pixels in textures) while Shadeup/WebGPU let you do this as a pure general purpose compute shader (more like a generic bit of code that happens to run on a GPU). This is both much more flexible in terms of what you can do as well as much more efficient/scalable in execution.

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