Programmable shading is a common technique for production animation, but interactive
programmable shading is not yet widely available. We support interactive programmable …

One of the main techniques used by software renderers to produce stunningly realistic
images is programmable shading—executing an arbitrarily complex program to compute the …

Real-time graphics hardware is becoming programmable, but this programmable hardware
is complex and difficult to use given current APIs. Higher-level abstractions would both …

Over the years, there have been two main branches of computer graphics image-synthesis
research; one focused on interactivity, the other on image quality. Procedural shading is a …

Modern graphics accelerators have embedded programmable components in the form of
vertex and fragment shading units. Current APIs permit specification of the programs for …

Extensions to the texture-mapping support of the abstract graphics hardware pipeline and
the OpenGL API are proposed to better support programmable shading, with a unified …

This book covers real-time shading systems, their design and how they work. Procedural
shading, long valued for off-line rendering and production animation is now possible on …

Designers of real-time rendering engines must balance the conflicting goals of maintaining
clear, extensible shading systems and achieving high rendering performance. In response …

In creating complex real-time shaders, programmers should be able to decompose code into
independent, localized modules of their choosing. Current real-time shading languages …

OpenGL® Shading Language, Third Edition, extensively updated for OpenGL 3.1, is the
experienced application programmer's guide to writing shaders. Part reference, part tutorial …