Introduction to Shaders

I gave a presentation with Jules Robichaud-Gagnon about Shaders and Compute Shaders at the SagLacIO. Here are the slides.

We did a small introduction to shaders, how it works from GPU -> vector world -> Sampling -> raster world -> Your eyes. We also covered how we can use the GPU to calculate physics using Compute Shaders.

slides

demo

Cool links

• Nice tutorial about Shaders on Tutsplus
• ShaderToy, an awesome shader web playground
• [Shader Forge Unity package][shaderforge] to build shaders using a visual editor
• UBER Standard Shader Ultra Unity Package for some great ready to use shaders
• GPU Accelerated Voxel Solver amazing Compute Shader demo with Unity Metal support
• Unity3d Mirror script which is not a shader, but does reflect some of the shaders

Screenshots and photos

GPU Accelerated Voxel Solver example

Shaders POM example

Jules, me and a cube

Jules, me and a cube on a mac, credits @LeBodro

• presentation
• saglacio
• unity3d
• shaders
• compute-shaders