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Re:Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 by Grosvenor on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:11AM (#46946809)
> Not a problem for me, but every SGI out there is fixed function only.

Is that true? I remember sgi had a shader library for modeling light aimed at the automotive market. All the demos and examples were showing off car paint colours in different environments.

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Re:Reverse Engineering the Prom for the SGI O2 by ThatGuyRaion on Monday February 09, 2026 @12:13PM (#46947834)
SGIs that matter (MIPS, etc)

IRIX only supports about OpenGL 1.2. It does have a fragment shading extension though:

https://tech-pubs.net/reputable-archive/fragment_lighting.tx...

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