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by corysama 5136 days ago
> Render to a buffer object and use that as your vertex array.

I don't think that's an option in ES2 or WebGL. I'd love to be proven wrong!
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ajross 5136 days ago
FBOs are absolutely part of ES2, and thus presumably an official part of WebGL. I've used them in embedded contexts, but never in a browser. And as always, this is on the bleeding edge of what the drivers are prepared for, so dragons may lurk. But at least in principle it should work.
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corysama 5136 days ago
I've seen talk of CPU-less render-to-vertexbuffer dating back to 2004, but I've never dug into how to actually do it until now. From what I can dig out, it requires PBOs which are not available in ES2. I guess copying back and forth over the bus via gl.bufferData(ARRAY_BUFFER, gl.readPixels(...), gl.STREAM_DRAW)) is still better than doing the math in JS. I might have to try combining the glReadPixels with the mapped buffer extension that is available on the iPhone P:
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