Teaching programmable shaders: lightweight versus heavyweight approach

Authors:
G. Scott Owen;Ying Zhu;Jeff Chastine;Bryson R. Payne
Affiliations:
Georgia State University;Georgia State University;Georgia State University;Georgia College & State University
Venue:
SIGGRAPH '05 ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Educators program
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The most exciting recent advance in computer graphics has been the development of programmable Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). We discuss different approaches to and some of the issues involved in teaching the use of GPUs.