Chapter 10. Conclusion

We show a new approach for developing effects using the GPU shading languages. It allows to combine various shader effects with each other and with application internal shaders. Our approach is relatively easy to implement and allows the authors to directly use the existing GPU shading languages. We propose a number of extensions to the X3D, an open standard for 3D data, to make our effects available for 3D content authors. We have implemented our approach for the GLSL shading language.