Spark: Modular, Composable Shaders for Graphics Hardware
by Tim Foley, Pat Hanrahan
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| url: | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15869-f11/www/readings/foley11_spark.pdf | | abstract: | In creating complex real-time shaders, programmers should be able to decompose code into independent, localized modules of their choosing. Current real-time shading languages, however, enforce a fixed decomposition into per-pipeline-stage procedures. Program concerns at other scales – including those that cross-cut multiple pipeline stages – cannot be expressed as reusable modules.
We present a shading language, Spark, and its implementation for modern graphics hardware that improves support for separation of concerns into modules. A Spark shader class can encapsulate code that maps to more than one pipeline stage, and can be extended and composed using object-oriented inheritance. In our tests, shaders written in Spark achieve performance within 2% of HLSL. |
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