{"json_modified": "2016-04-13T15:17:24.830082", "uuid": "73d4aa16-e0f5-4980-8472-101a516c1f61", "title": "WebGL2RenderingContext.readBuffer()", "url": "/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL2RenderingContext/readBuffer", "tags": ["API", "Reference", "Experimental", "WebGL", "WebGL2", "Method"], "translations": [], "modified": "2016-04-13T15:17:25", "label": "WebGL2RenderingContext.readBuffer()", "localization_tags": [], "locale": "en-US", "id": 181090, "last_edit": "2016-04-13T15:17:21", "summary": "The <strong><code>WebGL2RenderingContext.readBuffer()</code></strong> method of the <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API\">WebGL 2 API</a> selects a color buffer as the source for pixels for subsequent calls to <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRenderingContext/copyTexImage2D\" title=\"The WebGLRenderingContext.copyTexImage2D() method of the WebGL API copies pixels from the current WebGLFramebuffer into a 2D texture image.\"><code>copyTexImage2D</code></a>, <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRenderingContext/copyTexSubImage2D\" title=\"The WebGLRenderingContext.copyTexSubImage2D() method of the WebGL API copies pixels from the current WebGLFramebuffer into an existing 2D texture sub-image.\"><code>copyTexSubImage2D</code></a>, <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL2RenderingContext/copyTexSubImage3D\" title=\"The documentation about this has not yet been written; please consider contributing!\"><code>copyTexSubImage3D</code></a> or <a href=\"/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRenderingContext/readPixels\" title=\"The WebGLRenderingContext.readPixels() method of the WebGL API reads a block of pixels from a specified rectangle of the current color framebuffer into an ArrayBufferView object.\"><code>readPixels</code></a>.", "sections": [{"id": "Quick_Links", "title": null}, {"id": "Syntax", "title": "Syntax"}, {"id": "Parameters", "title": "Parameters"}, {"id": "Return_value", "title": "Return value"}, {"id": "Examples", "title": "Examples"}, {"id": "Specifications", "title": "Specifications"}, {"id": "Browser_compatibility", "title": "Browser compatibility"}, {"id": "See_also", "title": "See also"}], "slug": "Web/API/WebGL2RenderingContext/readBuffer", "review_tags": []}