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G. HaaserH. Steinlechner ,  M. May ,  M. Schwärzler ,  S. Maierhofer ,  R. Tobler (2016)

Semantic Composition of Language-Integrated Shaders

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Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics - Theory and Applications: International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, January 5-8, 2014, Revised Selected Papers

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In order to simplify shader programming we propose a system to specify composable shaders in a functional way directly in typical implementation languages of modern rendering frameworks. In constrast to existing pipeline shader frameworks, our system exposes a radically simplified pipeline, which we purposefully aligned with our basic intuition of shaders as compositions of per-primitive and per-pixel operations. By programming the shaders in the host language, we additionally remove the complexity of handling different programming languages for shaders and the rest of the framework.

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