[X3D-Public] Shaders - Re: Adobe At it Again

[Tony Parisi]

I believe that WebGL is using GLSL for its shading language. But I'm not
sure which flavor/profile/subset whatever. When I find out I'll report, I
have suddenly developed an urgent curiosity about WebGL.



On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:12 AM, John A. Stewart <alex.stewart at crc.ca>wrote:

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> > What about shading languages?  What's the web3D shading language?
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> John;
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> There were 3 shading languages that were popular; all 3 went into the spec.
> NVidias one (Cg) is, IMHO, dead.
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> FreeWRL supports GLSL - the OpenGL Shader language.
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> IIRC, BitManagement supports the Microsoft Shader language (which, as a
> sign of age I forget the name of at the moment)
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> I think, in my little opinion, that the world is moving to GLSL. Certainly,
> it is platform independent.
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> Of course, GLSL is, like many things, in flux.... which is a course in
> itself.
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