Introduced in 2001, vertex shaders and pixel shaders are supported by OpenGL and DirectX. See graphics pipeline and graphics accelerator.

The next version of OpenGL (2.0) will offer a High Level Shader Language (HLSL) that will allow coding in a C like language and also alleviate the need to write the function more than once for ...

This can take the RGB output of an OpenGL shader, of which he has created both 2D to 3D and spherical projection versions. The must-see demo is a global map of light pollution, and the result is a ...

Pixel Shader 3.0, Vertex Shader 3.0, DX9, and the 9700? Metaphor Sep 19, 2002 Jump to latest Follow Reply ...

“We are excited about what the OpenGL ES 2.0 standard brings to commercial handheld devices and look forward to working together with ATI on the new programmable shader APIs,” says Michael ...

With its support of scalable shader architecture, the total number of the geometry and pixel processors can be configured from as small as 2 for entry level mobile devices, up to 24 for high ...