diff --git a/src/data/Camera.ts b/src/data/Camera.ts
index 40f91c7..63eebe6 100644
--- a/src/data/Camera.ts
+++ b/src/data/Camera.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export type Camera = OrthographicCamera | PerspectiveCamera;
 export interface OrthographicCameraProps {
 	readonly name?: string;
 
-	readonly verticalSize: number;
+	readonly halfVerticalSize: number;
 	readonly nearPlane: number;
 	readonly farPlane: number;
 }
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ export class OrthographicCamera {
 
 	constructor({
 		name = "",
-		verticalSize,
+		halfVerticalSize,
 		nearPlane,
 		farPlane,
 	}: OrthographicCameraProps) {
 		this._name = name;
 
-		this._halfVerticalSize = verticalSize;
+		this._halfVerticalSize = halfVerticalSize;
 		this._nearPlane = nearPlane;
 		this._farPlane = farPlane;
 
diff --git a/src/geometry.ts b/src/geometry.ts
index 8bc6ef8..ebf5b7d 100644
--- a/src/geometry.ts
+++ b/src/geometry.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+/*!
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License,
+ * v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can
+ * obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+
 export function degToRad(angleDeg: number): number {
 	return angleDeg * Math.PI / 180;
 }
diff --git a/src/gltf.ts b/src/gltf.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1bc9c58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gltf.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,510 @@
+/*!
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License,
+ * v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this file, You can
+ * obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ */
+
+import * as data from "./data";
+
+/* INITIAL SUPPORT PLAN
+ *
+ * Basic properties:
+ * - extensionsRequired:
+ *   - issues error when any extension not supported at least partially
+ * - extensionsUsed: ignored
+ * - accessors: used indirectly
+ *   - read when converting mesh
+ *   - sparse: no support
+ *     - issues error
+ * - animations: no support
+ *   - issues warning
+ *   - no animations emitted
+ * - asset:
+ *   - version: verified
+ *   - rest: ignored
+ * - buffers: used indirectly
+ *   - read when converting mesh
+ *   - uri: no support
+ *     - issues error
+ * - bufferViews: used indirectly
+ *   - read when converting mesh
+ * - cameras:
+ *   - orthographic:
+ *     - xmag: ignored
+ *     - ymag: converted to halfVerticalSize
+ *   - perspective:
+ *     - aspectRatio: ignored
+ *       - issues warning when provided
+ * - images:
+ *   - uri: no support
+ *     - issues error
+ * - materials:
+ *   - name: full support
+ *   - pbrMetallicRoughness:
+ *     - baseColorFactor: full support
+ *     - baseColorTexture: partial support
+ *       - forced texCoord 0
+ *       - issues error when different provided
+ *     - metallicFactor: full support
+ *     - roughnessFactor: full support
+ *     - metallicRoughnessTexture: partial support
+ *       - forced texCoord 0
+ *       - issues error when different provided
+ *   - normalTexture: partial support
+ *     - scale: full support
+ *     - forced texCoord 0
+ *     - issues error when different provided
+ *   - occlusionTexture: partial support
+ *     - strength: full support
+ *     - forced texCoord 1
+ *     - issues error when different provided
+ *   - emissiveTexture: partial support
+ *     - forced texCoord 0
+ *     - issues error when different provided
+ *   - emissiveFactor: full support
+ *   - alphaMode:
+ *     - OPAQUE: full support
+ *     - MASK: no support
+ *       - issues error
+ *     - BLEND: partial support
+ *       - decoded, but not implemented
+ *   - doubleSided: prtial support
+ *       - decoded, but not implemented
+ *
+ * Extensions:
+ * - KHR_lights_punctual
+ *   - name: full support
+ *   - color/intensity: full support
+ *     - converted to color = color * intensity
+ *   - type:
+ *     - directional: full support
+ *     - point: full support
+ *     - spot: no support
+ *       - issues error
+ *   - range: no support
+ *     - issues warning
+ *     - always infite range
+ * - KHR_materials_emissive_strength: full support
+ *   - converted to emissive = emissive * strength
+ * - KHR_materials_ior: full support
+ *   - when not provided, glTF's default is used (1.5) intead of oktaeder's (1.45)
+ * - KHR_materials_ior: full support
+ *   - probably
+ */
+
+export interface ParseResult {
+	readonly cameras: readonly data.Camera[];
+	readonly materials: readonly data.Material[];
+	readonly lights: readonly data.Light[];
+	readonly scenes: readonly data.Scene[];
+	readonly scene: data.Scene | null;
+
+	readonly warnings: readonly ParseError[];
+	readonly errors: readonly ParseError[];
+}
+
+export interface ParseErrorProps {
+	message: string;
+	position?: JsonPosition | undefined;
+	severity: ParseErrorSeverity;
+	options?: ErrorOptions | undefined;
+}
+
+export type ParseErrorSeverity =
+	| "warning"
+	| "error"
+	;
+
+export class ParseError extends Error {
+
+	override message: string;
+	position: JsonPosition | undefined;
+	severity: ParseErrorSeverity;
+
+	constructor({
+		message,
+		position,
+		severity,
+		options,
+	}: ParseErrorProps) {
+		super(message, options);
+
+		this.message = message;
+		this.position = position;
+		this.severity = severity;
+	}
+}
+
+export interface JsonPosition {
+	readonly line: number;
+	readonly column: number;
+	readonly path: number;
+}
+
+export interface ParseOptions {
+	/**
+	 * When `true`, the parser will throw with a `ParseError` on the first error
+	 * encountered. This includes warnings when `treatWarningsAsErrors` is
+	 * `true`. When `false`, the parser will always return `ParseResult` and is
+	 * never expected to throw. Failures are then communicated with the
+	 * `ParseResult.errors` array.
+	 *
+	 * When this option is `true`, `stopOnFirstError` has no effect.
+	 * @default true
+	 */
+	readonly throwOnError?: boolean;
+	/**
+	 * When `true`, the parser will stop processing on the first error
+	 * encountered. This includes warnings when `treatWarningsAsErrors` is
+	 * `true`. When `false`, the parser will continue processing when it
+	 * encounters an error that it consideres recoverable.
+	 *
+	 * This option has no effect when `throwOnError` is `true`.
+	 * @default true
+	 */
+	readonly stopOnFirstError?: boolean;
+	/**
+	 * When `true`, the parser will treat any encountered warning as a failure
+	 * for the purpose of the other options. Note that regardless of this
+	 * option, the warnings will always be returned in the
+	 * `ParseResult.warnings` array and they will always have their `severity`
+	 * property equal to `"warning"`.
+	 * @default false
+	 */
+	readonly treatWarningsAsErrors?: boolean;
+}
+
+export async function parse(gltf: ArrayBufferView, {
+	throwOnError = true,
+	stopOnFirstError = true,
+	treatWarningsAsErrors = false,
+}: ParseOptions = {}): Promise<ParseResult> {
+
+	const cameras: data.Camera[] = [];
+	const materials: data.Material[] = [];
+	const lights: data.Light[] = [];
+	const scenes: data.Scene[] = [];
+	const scene: data.Scene | null = null;
+
+	const warnings: ParseError[] = [];
+	const errors: ParseError[] = [];
+
+	function makeParseResult(): ParseResult {
+		return Object.freeze({
+			cameras: Object.freeze(cameras),
+			materials: Object.freeze(materials),
+			lights: Object.freeze(lights),
+			scenes: Object.freeze(scenes),
+			scene,
+
+			warnings: Object.freeze(warnings),
+			errors: Object.freeze(errors),
+		});
+	}
+
+	let gltfDataView = new DataView(gltf.buffer, gltf.byteOffset, gltf.byteLength);
+
+	// --- GLB HEADER ----------------------------------------------------------
+
+	if (gltfDataView.byteLength < 12) {
+		const message = `glTF buffer view is too short to be a valid binary glTF container. Binary glTF begins with a 12-byte header, but the provided buffer view has byte length of ${gltf.byteLength}`;
+		const error = new ParseError({ message, severity: "error" });
+		if (throwOnError) {
+			throw error;
+		}
+
+		errors.push(error);
+		// unrecoverable error
+		return makeParseResult();
+	}
+
+	const magic = gltfDataView.getUint32(0, true);
+	const version = gltfDataView.getUint32(4, true);
+	let length = gltfDataView.getUint32(8, true);
+
+	if (magic !== 0x46546C67) {
+		const message = `glTF container has invalid magic bytes. The first four bytes must have a value of 0x46546C67 when read as little endian unsigned integer, but in the provided buffer view they have the value of ${u32toHexString(magic)}`;
+		const error = new ParseError({ message, severity: "error" });
+		if (throwOnError) {
+			throw error;
+		}
+
+		errors.push(error);
+		/* NOTE This error is considered unrecoverable, because it is very
+		 * likely that when the magic bytes are wrong, the provided buffer
+		 * view points to a completely different format or garbage data and
+		 * it would be pointless to continue parsing in this case.
+		 */
+		return makeParseResult();
+	}
+
+	if (version !== 2) {
+		const message = `Unsupported binary glTF container format. The bytes 4-8 define the binary glTF conatiner format version when read as little endian unsigned integer. Only version 2 is supported, but in the provided buffer they have the value of ${version}`;
+		const error = new ParseError({ message, severity: "error" });
+		if (throwOnError) {
+			throw error;
+		}
+
+		errors.push(error);
+		// unrecoverable error
+		return makeParseResult();
+	}
+
+	if (length !== gltf.byteLength) {
+		const message = `Invalid glTF container length. The bytes 8-12 define the length in bytes of the entirety of the binary glTF container when read as little endian unsigned integer. The container byte length is defined as ${length}, but the provided buffer view has byte length of ${gltf.byteLength}`;
+		const error = new ParseError({ message, severity: "error" });
+		if (throwOnError) {
+			throw error;
+		}
+
+		errors.push(error);
+		// recovery: use the lower length value and pretend its the actual length
+		length = Math.min(length, gltf.byteLength);
+		gltfDataView = new DataView(gltf.buffer, gltf.byteOffset, length);
+	}
+
+	let rest = new DataView(gltf.buffer, gltf.byteOffset + 12, gltf.byteLength - 12);
+
+	// --- JSON CHUNK ----------------------------------------------------------
+
+	throw new Error("TODO");
+
+	// --- BIN CHUNK -----------------------------------------------------------
+}
+
+function u32toHexString(value: number) {
+	return "0x" + ("00000000" + value.toString(16)).slice(-8);
+}
+
+// --- GLTF DATA STRUCTURES ----------------------------------------------------
+
+export interface Gltf {
+	extensionsRequired?: [string, ...string[]];
+	accessors?: [Accessor, ...Accessor[]];
+	asset: Asset;
+	buffers?: [Buffer, ...Buffer[]];
+	bufferViews?: [BufferView, ...BufferView[]];
+	cameras?: [Camera, ...Camera[]];
+	images?: [Image, ...Image[]];
+	materials?: [Material, ...Material[]];
+	meshes?: [Mesh, ...Mesh[]];
+	nodes?: [Node, ...Node[]];
+	samplers?: [Sampler, ...Sampler[]];
+	scene?: number;
+	scenes?: [number, ...number[]];
+	textures?: [Texture, ...Texture[]];
+}
+
+export interface Accessor {
+	bufferView?: number;
+	/** @default 0 */
+	byteOffset?: number;
+	componentType: ComponentType;
+	/** @default false */
+	normalized?: boolean;
+	count: number;
+	type: AccessorType;
+}
+
+export enum ComponentType {
+	Byte = 5120,
+	UnsignedByte = 5121,
+	Short = 5122,
+	UnsignedShort = 5123,
+	UnsignedInt = 5125,
+	Float = 5126,
+}
+
+export type AccessorType =
+	| "SCALAR"
+	| "VEC2"
+	| "VEC3"
+	| "VEC4"
+	| "MAT2"
+	| "MAT3"
+	| "MAT4"
+	;
+
+export interface Asset {
+	version: `${string}.${string}`;
+	minVersion: `${string}.${string}`;
+}
+
+export interface Buffer {
+	uri?: string;
+	byteLength: number;
+}
+
+export interface BufferView {
+	buffer: number;
+	/** @default 0 */
+	byteOffset?: number;
+	byteLength: number;
+	byteStride?: number;
+}
+
+export type Camera =
+	| CameraOrthographic
+	| CameraPerspective
+	;
+
+export interface CameraOrthographic {
+	orthographic: Orthographic;
+	type: "orthographic";
+}
+
+export interface CameraPerspective {
+	orthographic: Perspective;
+	type: "perspective";
+}
+
+export interface Orthographic {
+	xmag: number;
+	ymag: number;
+	zfar: number;
+	znear: number;
+}
+
+export interface Perspective {
+	aspectRatio?: number;
+	yfov: number;
+	zfar?: number;
+	znear: number;
+}
+
+export interface Image {
+	uri?: string;
+	mimeType?: ImageMimeType;
+	bufferView?: number;
+	name?: string;
+}
+
+export type ImageMimeType =
+	| "image/jpeg"
+	| "image/png"
+	;
+
+export interface Material {
+	name?: string;
+	extensions?: MaterialExtensions;
+	pbrMetallicRoughness?: MaterialPbrMetallicRoughness;
+	normalTexture?: NormalTextureInfo;
+	occlusionTexture?: OcclusionTextureInfo;
+	emissiveTexture?: TextureInfo;
+	emissiveFactor?: [r: number, g: number, b: number];
+	alphaMode?: AlphaMode;
+	/** @default false */
+	doubleSided?: boolean;
+}
+
+export interface MaterialExtensions {
+	KHR_materials_emissive_strength?: KHR_materials_emissive_strength;
+	KHR_materials_ior?: KHR_materials_ior;
+}
+
+export interface KHR_materials_emissive_strength {
+	/** @default 1 */
+	emissiveStrength?: number;
+}
+
+export interface KHR_materials_ior {
+	/** @default 1.5 */
+	ior?: number;
+}
+
+export interface MaterialPbrMetallicRoughness {
+	/** @default [1, 1, 1, 1] */
+	baseColorFactor?: [r: number, b: number, g: number, partialCoverage: number];
+	baseColorTexture?: TextureInfo;
+	/** @default 1 */
+	metallicFactor?: number;
+	/** @default 1 */
+	roughnessFactor?: number;
+	metallicRoughnessTexture?: TextureInfo;
+}
+
+export interface TextureInfo {
+	index: number;
+	/** @default 0 */
+	texCoord?: number;
+}
+
+export interface NormalTextureInfo extends TextureInfo {
+	/** @default 1 */
+	scale?: number;
+}
+
+export interface OcclusionTextureInfo extends TextureInfo {
+	/** @default 1 */
+	strength?: number;
+}
+
+export type AlphaMode =
+	| "OPAQUE"
+	| "MASK"
+	| "BLEND"
+	;
+
+export interface Mesh {
+	primitives: [Primitive, ...Primitive[]];
+	name?: string;
+}
+
+export interface Primitive {
+	attributes: {
+		POSITION?: number,
+		NORMAL?: number,
+		TANGENT?: number,
+		TEXCOORD_0?: number,
+		TEXCOORD_1?: number,
+	};
+	indices?: number;
+	material?: number;
+	/** @default PrimitiveMode.Triangles */
+	mode?: PrimitiveMode;
+}
+
+export enum PrimitiveMode {
+	Points = 0,
+	Lines = 1,
+	LineLoop = 2,
+	LineStrip = 3,
+	Triangles = 4,
+	TriangleStrip = 5,
+	TriangleFan = 6,
+}
+
+export interface Sampler {
+	magFilter?: MagFilter;
+	minFilter?: MinFilter;
+	/** @default WrappingMode.Repeat */
+	wrapS?: WrappingMode;
+	/** @default WrappingMode.Repeat */
+	wrapT?: WrappingMode;
+}
+
+export enum MagFilter {
+	Nearest = 9728,
+	Linear = 9729,
+}
+
+export enum MinFilter {
+	Nearest = 9728,
+	Linear = 9729,
+	NearestMipmapNearest = 9984,
+	LinearMipmapNearest = 9985,
+	NearestMipmapLinear = 9986,
+	LinearMipmapLinear = 9987,
+}
+
+export enum WrappingMode {
+	ClampToEdge = 33071,
+	MirroredRepeat = 33648,
+	Repeat = 10497,
+}
+
+export interface Texture {
+	sampler?: number;
+	source?: number;
+	name?: string;
+}