ISL is the multipass interactive shading language for SGI s OpenGL Shader. OpenGL Shader compiles shaders into multiple OpenGL rendering passes. The roots of OpenGL Shader lie in a prototype RenderMan ...

Using OpenGL and GLUT, you can increase the speed of your image processing by using the power inside your system's GPU. Video games have been making full use of GPUs for years. Now, even nongraphical ...

GDC, San Jose, CA/ Munich, Germany – March 24, 2004 – ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) has added full support of the OpenGL Shading Language to the latest version of its hardware ...

OpenGL is a well-known standard for generating 3-D as well as 2-D graphics that is extremely powerful and has many capabilities. OpenGL is defined and released by the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ...

OpenGL ES has taken a huge leap forward. The 2D/3D graphics specification is rarely talked about outside the gaming community, and the version number of “3.1” implies a small improvement. On the ...

In modern projects, to produce a nice looking scene the engine will render thousands of different objects: characters, buildings, landscape, effects and more. Of course, there are several ways to ...

The Khronos Group today announced the immediate release of the OpenGL 4.2 specification, bringing the very latest graphics functionality to the most advanced and widely adopted cross-platform 2D and ...

Introduction In the last OpenGL Framebuffer object article we covered the basic usage of an FBO for rendering to a single texture and then applying that texture some where else. However this isn't ...

The Khronos Group, the industry consortium responsible for the care and feeding of the OpenGL graphics standard, on Monday announced the release of OpenGL 3.2. The new release adds features to improve ...

The Stanford Real-Time Shading Language (RTSL) is both higher- and lower-level than ISL. It is higher-level in that it allows arbitrary expressions as statements in the shading language, but it is ...