J.Santos Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Hi guys! I'm doing a Personal Inquiry on Writing shaders, using VOP's, for my MA. I have found enough information for my needs (and for the time that I have to complete the task ) but today, as I was organizing the text, I wasn't very happy with the definitions I have on Textures and Shaders... These 2 are almost always side-by-side and are used as if they're the same... Basically what I have is that a Texture is a map (.jpg or other file format), that gives the appearance or adds some detail to an object, while the shader is a set of instructions (code), that tell the points/vertices of an object how they should behave/interact with light and so on, according to position and other variables... and a shader can have several or none texture maps... can someone else provide more info or where to look at? Currently I used the Wikipedia (not a very well seen source at University...) and a renderman book... Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Try this: http://trowley.org/ And about textures; I see them just as another kind of data used in shaders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Santos Posted April 12, 2011 Author Share Posted April 12, 2011 Try this: http://trowley.org/ And about textures; I see them just as another kind of data used in shaders. Thanks Macha! Lot's of links with LOT'S of info I'm sure! Time to dig in! Yeah, I kind of see the textures the same way but I cannot go to a presentation and say just that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.Santos Posted April 12, 2011 Author Share Posted April 12, 2011 Some of the links (or many of them...) are down... Anyway, I found another route to some of them and to new ones through one of the guys that maintains the page you sent me... So... more papers here Resource for Computer Graphics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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