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Shaders helped me understand how to program GPUs. My favorite book on the topic is https://thebookofshaders.com/ https://thebookofshaders.com/ (free) and I'd h

Shaders helped me understand how to program GPUs. My favorite book on the topic is https://thebookofshaders.com/ https://thebookofshaders.com/ (free) and I'd highly recommend you mess around with it Blender and Unity also have a graphical language to do shaders which are really fun to mess around with.

person_of_color 7y ago
Is there anything out there that is more complete?
- pjmlp 7y ago
  Plenty, depends if you want books, https://www.amazon.com/OpenGL-Shading-Language-Cookbook-high-quality/dp/1789342252 https://www.amazon.com/OpenGL-Shading-Language-Cookbook-high... https://www.amazon.de/Graphics-Shaders-Practice-Michael-Bailey/dp/1568813341 https://www.amazon.de/Graphics-Shaders-Practice-Michael-Bail... https://www.amazon.de/Real-Time-Rendering-Fourth-Tomas-Akenine-Moller/dp/1138627003 https://www.amazon.de/Real-Time-Rendering-Fourth-Tomas-Akeni... https://www.amazon.de/Physically-Based-Rendering-Theory-Implementation/dp/0128006455 https://www.amazon.de/Physically-Based-Rendering-Theory-Impl... Or grab some online content instead, http://www.pbr-book.org/ http://www.pbr-book.org/ https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems/gpugems_pref01.html https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems/gpugems_pref01.... https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems2/gpugems2_inside_front_cover.html https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems2/gpugems2_insid... https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems3/gpugems3_pref01.html https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems3/gpugems3_pref0... https://developer.download.nvidia.com/CgTutorial/cg_tutorial_frontmatter.html https://developer.download.nvidia.com/CgTutorial/cg_tutorial... Naturally most of the stuff I linked to, doesn't use necessarily GLSL ES, however it is relatively easy to translate the concepts and ideas into it, given how most shading languages happen to be either a C or C++ based dialect.
  - person_of_color 7y ago
    Nice!

person_of_color 7y ago

Is there anything out there that is more complete?

pjmlp 7y ago
Plenty, depends if you want books, https://www.amazon.com/OpenGL-Shading-Language-Cookbook-high-quality/dp/1789342252 https://www.amazon.com/OpenGL-Shading-Language-Cookbook-high... https://www.amazon.de/Graphics-Shaders-Practice-Michael-Bailey/dp/1568813341 https://www.amazon.de/Graphics-Shaders-Practice-Michael-Bail... https://www.amazon.de/Real-Time-Rendering-Fourth-Tomas-Akenine-Moller/dp/1138627003 https://www.amazon.de/Real-Time-Rendering-Fourth-Tomas-Akeni... https://www.amazon.de/Physically-Based-Rendering-Theory-Implementation/dp/0128006455 https://www.amazon.de/Physically-Based-Rendering-Theory-Impl... Or grab some online content instead, http://www.pbr-book.org/ http://www.pbr-book.org/ https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems/gpugems_pref01.html https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems/gpugems_pref01.... https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems2/gpugems2_inside_front_cover.html https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems2/gpugems2_insid... https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems3/gpugems3_pref01.html https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems3/gpugems3_pref0... https://developer.download.nvidia.com/CgTutorial/cg_tutorial_frontmatter.html https://developer.download.nvidia.com/CgTutorial/cg_tutorial... Naturally most of the stuff I linked to, doesn't use necessarily GLSL ES, however it is relatively easy to translate the concepts and ideas into it, given how most shading languages happen to be either a C or C++ based dialect.
- person_of_color 7y ago
  Nice!