##What are post effets?
There is a common misconception that post effect are a special/separate feature of WebGL. This is not the case. A post effect is basically a shader applied to a full screen quad - a plane that covers the entire screen. It can be applied for example to a 3d scene, an image or video.
The most powerful post effects can be achived by combining several shaders and rendering them one after the other - which is typically called a pass.
For example, rendering the blur effect below requires 3 passes:
- render the 3d scene to a texture
- the first blur pass to blur along the X axis
- the second blur pass to blur along the Y axis
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####The rest of the tutorial is coming soon!
Meanwhile enjoy this simple example of a blur effect.