Introduction to Shaders

What is a shader?

Why run code on the GPU?

Vertex & Fragment

Vertex Shaders

Output the position of the each vertex in screen coordinates.

Fragment Shaders

Output the color of each pixel in the rendered image.

Writing Shaders

(in Unity3d)

Tutorials

http://aerotwist.com/tutorials/an-introduction-to-shaders-part-1/
http://aerotwist.com/tutorials/an-introduction-to-shaders-part-2/
http://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/SL-VertexFragmentShaderExamples.html

Introduction to Shaders

By jimfleming

Introduction to Shaders

Very brief 5 minute introduction to shaders.

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