Rendering my (billiard) balls in a fragment shader

Re:Rendering my (billiard) balls in a fragment shader by prox on Sunday September 11, 2022 @03:09AM (#32797483)

Cool, I recently started with GLSL, and it’s interesting there are many roads that lead to a similar solution (how I draw circles or make a center is tad different)

Where or how did you learn GLSL?

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Re:Rendering my (billiard) balls in a fragment shader by sysrpl on Sunday September 11, 2022 @03:24AM (#32797536)

I was around and writing OpenGL when we started getting the first programmable cards. Nvidia shot out first with their Cg language, but I held back and waited for the "Orange Book" to come up. I bought it right away and learned from it and by looking at other peoples shaders.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opengl+orange+book

Also the quick reference card helps

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=glsl+quick+reference&t=h_&ia=web

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Re:Rendering my (billiard) balls in a fragment shader by prox on Sunday September 11, 2022 @05:10AM (#32798071)

So you are a veteran, compared to me, just started this year, really reminded why I should have been more observant in math class :)

The resources are really good, hadn’t found something like that yet!

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Re:Rendering my (billiard) balls in a fragment shader by pjmlp on Sunday September 11, 2022 @12:13PM (#32800858)

Small correction, NVidia Cg was only the first on PC.

We had Renderman on NeXT, TI TMS34010, and a couple of other attempts outside the PC world.

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