Until 200x: Fixed Function Pipeline
• Trend to unification: make pipeline programmable
• Upload code to GPU
• C-like languages
• Vendor independent
• Libraries of effects
• Cg (C for graphics)
• GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language)
• HLSL (high level shading language)
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