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

[Joe D Williams]

> When I find out I'll report, I have suddenly developed an urgent 
> curiosity about WebGL.

On this topic, I think you will find it a very interesting time to 
join
public_webgl at khronos.org at least.
with statements like: "* The Cg compiler can also compile GLSL." for 
example.
They seem hard at work getting some final details settled for 1.0 
release.
Best Regards,
Joe


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Parisi" <tparisi at gmail.com>
To: "John A. Stewart" <alex.stewart at crc.ca>
Cc: "X3D Graphics public mailing list" <x3d-public at web3d.org>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [X3D-Public] Shaders - Re: Adobe At it Again


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