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Could someone give me an accurate step by step of taking this example code and t

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Question

Could someone give me an accurate step by step of taking this example code and turning it into a tesselated triangle.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script id="vertex-shader" type="x-shader/x-vertex">
attribute vec4 vPosition;

void
main()
{
gl_Position = vPosition;
}
</script>

<script id="fragment-shader" type="x-shader/x-fragment">
precision mediump float;

void
main()
{
gl_FragColor = vec4( 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 );
}
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="../Common/webgl-utils.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../Common/initShaders.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="triangle.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
<canvas id="gl-canvas" width="512" height="512">
Oops ... your browser doesn't support the HTML5 canvas element
</canvas>
</body>
</html>

// Above is the html code below is the JS code //


var gl;
var points;

window.onload = function init()
{
var canvas = document.getElementById( "gl-canvas" );
  
gl = WebGLUtils.setupWebGL( canvas );
if ( !gl ) { alert( "WebGL isn't available" ); }

  
var vertices = new Float32Array([-1, -1, 0, 1, 1, -1]);

// Configure WebGL

gl.viewport( 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height );
gl.clearColor( 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 );
  
// Load shaders and initialize attribute buffers
  
var program = initShaders( gl, "vertex-shader", "fragment-shader" );
gl.useProgram( program );
  
// Load the data into the GPU
  
var bufferId = gl.createBuffer();
gl.bindBuffer( gl.ARRAY_BUFFER, bufferId );
gl.bufferData( gl.ARRAY_BUFFER,vertices, gl.STATIC_DRAW );

// Associate out shader variables with our data buffer
  
var vPosition = gl.getAttribLocation( program, "vPosition" );
gl.vertexAttribPointer( vPosition, 2, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, 0 );
gl.enableVertexAttribArray( vPosition );

render();
};


function render() {
gl.clear( gl.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT );
gl.drawArrays( gl.TRIANGLES, 0, 3 );
}

Explanation / Answer

int n;

var vertices = new Float32Array([-1, -1, 0, 1, 1, -1]);

gl.viewport( 0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height );
gl.clearColor( 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 );

var vPosition = gl.getAttribLocation( program, "vPosition" );
gl.vertexAttribPointer( vPosition, 2, gl.FLOAT, false, 0, 0 );
gl.enableVertexAttribArray( vPosition );

render();

function render() {

gl.clear( gl.COLOR_BUFFER_BIT );
gl.drawArrays( gl.TRIANGLES, 0, 3 );