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Not a single word about Renderman?!!

Before GeForce 3 was a thing, those of us with access to NeXT machines already had a blick what would mean to write shaders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar_RenderMan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RenderMan_Shading_Language

"The RenderMan companion : a programmer's guide to realistic computer graphics.", 1990

I am also missing 3DFx's work on shading languages before they got acquired by NVidia.

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I'm the editor of the Chip Hall of Fame: if you follow the link in the citation where Pixar/Toy Story is mentioned, it takes you to a whole Spectrum feature about the development of Renderman :) But this article was intended to be tightly focused on the creation of the NV20, and how it enabled real time shaders, so I didn't have room to do more than mention Pixar in passing!

Faire enough, thanks for clarifying it.

The linked story is actually quite interesting.

"blick"?

"Glance" in German.

Swedish too.

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