Beyond programmable shading: fundamentals

This first course in a series gives an introduction to parallel programming architectures and environments for interactive graphics. There are strong indications that the future of interactive graphics involves a programming model more flexible than today's OpenGL/Direct3D pipelines. As such, graphics developers need to have a basic understanding of how to combine emerging parallel programming techniques with the traditional interactive rendering pipeline. This course gives an introduction to several parallel graphics architectures, programming environments, and an introduction to the new types of graphics algorithms that will be possible.

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