Cg / C for Graphics for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Creating Images and Animation With the C Programming Language"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

Cg / C for Graphics is a programming environment designed especially for artists to create special effects and animation quickly. Cg / C for Graphics was developed by NNIDIA Corporation with help from Microsoft.

Cg / C for Graphics is compatible with the OpenGL API and Microsoft's HLSL / High Level Shading Language for DirectX. It runs on multiple platforms.

Heavy duty graphics, special effects and animation are normally run on graphics processing units / GPUs rather than the CPUs that run our desktop personal computers. Until now, most programs for GPUs used assembly language, especially when speed is a high priority, such as for video games.

Now, these computer artists can use Cg / C for Graphics

They must control the shape, appearance and motion of objects. They operate on vertices and fragments. 3D applications need an animation rate of at least 15 images per second, 60 per second to display real time movement.

What really controls how realistic computer images appear to our eyes is the degree of shading. Cg / C for Graphics uses a shading language to make images appear as the artists intended.

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