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A language for shading and lighting calculations

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Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques table of contents

Dallas, TX, USA

Pages: 289 - 298

Year of Publication: 1990

ISBN:0-89791-344-2

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Pat Hanrahan	Princeton University
Jim Lawson	Pixar

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A shading language provides a means to extend the shading and lighting formulae used by a rendering system. This paper discusses the design of a new shading language based on previous work of Cook and Perlin. This language has various types of shaders for light sources and surface reflectances, point and color data types, control flow constructs that support the casting of outgoing and the integration of incident light, a clearly specified interface to the rendering system using global state variables, and a host of useful built-in functions. The design issues and their impact on the implementation are also discussed.

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