Efficient use of user-defined shaders to implement graphics...

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2006-03-21

2006-03-21

Chauhan, Ulka J. (Department: 2671)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Three-dimension

Reexamination Certificate

active

07015909

ABSTRACT:
User-defined shaders are constructed from fragments. The shaders are identified by tags. At run-time, the tag is used to determine whether the user-defined shader has been previously compiled. If it has, the compiled version is executed. If it has not, the fragments are assembled to form the shader and the shader is run-time compiled. The compiled shader can be stored for subsequent reuse, with the tag serving as an index to the compiled version.

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