We can understand why shaderacademy.com chose that name over “the shady school,” but whatever they call it, if you are ...

The patent is for a method for graphics processing that “includes executing, on a graphics processing unit (GPU), a shader program that performs ray tracing of a 3D environment represented by an ...

Microsoft has released a preview of the next step in DirectX Raytracing to its Windows Insider Program, meaning developers can start to play with new performance enhancing features to deliver a ...

For example, shader programming. Graphics programmers used to do all shader programming, but now most of it is the responsibility of technical art.

Those intersections are then sent to a shader program running on the GPU, which determines whether the object is opaque (a "hit" for the ray-tracing algorithm) or transparent (i.e., the ...

The Shader Model 6.8 provides a more efficient shader programming environment, while GPU Upload Heaps further increase efficiency of the controversial resizable BAR feature of modern GPUs.

I know of at least one game on iPad 2 with enhanced shaders that work fine on 3GS. The developer considered giving iPhone 4 and original iPad users the option to run in lower resolution with these 'A5 ...

- The ability to query and load a binary for shader program objects to save re-compilation time; - The capability to bind programs individually to programmable stages for programming flexibility; ...