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+# WebGL Tutorials
+
+This is just a collection of examples and tutorial results I have done
+during my playing with WebGL and reading of the book
+[Programming 3D Applications with HTML5 and WebGL](http://oreil.ly/program-3d-apps-html5-webGL)
+written by Tony Parisi and published at O'Reily.
+
+## Description
+
+These are just a bunch of HTML, CSS and Javascript files demonstrating WebGL.
+
+All or most of the stuff is taken from the book mentioned above.
+
+## Requirements
+
+ * Webserver (the examples do not work with file:// delivery)
+ * A WebGL capable Browser.
+
+## Contributing
+
+This is just for demonstration.
+
+## License
+
+GNU General Public License (Version 3)
+
+> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+> the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+> (at your option) any later version.
+> 
+> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+> but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+> GNU General Public License for more details.
+> 
+> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+> along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## Author
+
+Georg Hopp <<georg@steffers.org>>