WebGL Beginner's Guide
Become a master of 3D web programming in WebGL
and JavaScript
Diego Cantor
Brandon Jones
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
WebGL Beginner's Guide
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First published: June 2012
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About the Authors
Diego Hernando Cantor Rivera is a Soware Engineer born in 1980 in Bogota, Colombia.
Diego completed his undergraduate studies in 2002 with the development of a computer
vision system that tracked the human gaze as a mechanism to interact with computers.
Later on, in 2005, he nished his master's degree in Computer Engineering with emphasis
in Soware Architecture and Medical Imaging Processing. During his master's studies, Diego
worked as an intern at the imaging processing laboratory CREATIS in Lyon, France and later
on at the Australian E-Health Research Centre in Brisbane, Australia.
Diego is currently pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Western University
in London, Canada, where he is involved in the development augmented reality systems
for neurosurgery.
When Diego is not wring code, he enjoys singing, cooking, travelling, watching a good play,
or bodybuilding.
Diego speaks Spanish, English, and French.
