| OpenGL.GL.ATI.text_fragment_shader | index /home/mcfletch/pylive/OpenGL/GL/ATI/text_fragment_shader.py |
OpenGL extension ATI.text_fragment_shader
This module customises the behaviour of the
OpenGL.raw.GL.ATI.text_fragment_shader to provide a more
Python-friendly API
Overview (from the spec)
The ATI_fragment_shader extension exposes a powerful fragment
processing model that provides a very general means of expressing
fragment color blending and dependent texture address modification.
The processing is termed a fragment shader or fragment program and
is specifed using a register-based model in which there are fixed
numbers of instructions, texture lookups, read/write registers, and
constants.
ATI_fragment_shader provides a unified instruction set
for operating on address or color data and eliminates the
distinction between the two. That extension provides all the
interfaces necessary to fully expose this programmable fragment
processor in GL.
ATI_text_fragment_shader is a redefinition of the
ATI_fragment_shader functionality, using a slightly different
interface. The intent of creating ATI_text_fragment_shader is to
take a step towards treating fragment programs similar to other
programmable parts of the GL rendering pipeline, specifically
vertex programs. This new interface is intended to appear
similar to the ARB_vertex_program API, within the limits of the
feature set exposed by the original ATI_fragment_shader extension.
The most significant differences between the two extensions are:
(1) ATI_fragment_shader provides a procedural function call
interface to specify the fragment program, whereas
ATI_text_fragment_shader uses a textual string to specify
the program. The fundamental syntax and constructs of the
program "language" remain the same.
(2) The program object managment portions of the interface,
namely the routines used to create, bind, and delete program
objects and set program constants are managed
using the framework defined by ARB_vertex_program.
(3) ATI_fragment_shader refers to the description of the
programmable fragment processing as a "fragment shader".
In keeping with the desire to treat all programmable parts
of the pipeline consistently, ATI_text_fragment_shader refers
to these as "fragment programs". The name of the extension is
left as ATI_text_fragment_shader instead of
ATI_text_fragment_program in order to indicate the underlying
similarity between the API's of the two extensions, and to
differentiate it from any other potential extensions that
may be able to move even further in the direction of treating
fragment programs as just another programmable area of the
GL pipeline.
Although ATI_fragment_shader was originally conceived as a
device-independent extension that would expose the capabilities of
future generations of hardware, changing trends in programmable
hardware have affected the lifespan of this extension. For this
reason you will now find a fixed set of features and resources
exposed, and the queries to determine this set have been deprecated
in ATI_fragment_shader. Further, in ATI_text_fragment_shader,
most of these resource limits are fixed by the text grammar and
the queries have been removed altogether.
The official definition of this extension is available here:
http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ATI/text_fragment_shader.txt
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| EXTENSION_NAME = 'GL_ATI_text_fragment_shader' GL_TEXT_FRAGMENT_SHADER_ATI = GL_TEXT_FRAGMENT_SHADER_ATI __file__ = '/home/mcfletch/pylive/OpenGL/GL/ATI/text_fragment_shader.pyc' __name__ = 'OpenGL.GL.ATI.text_fragment_shader' __package__ = 'OpenGL.GL.ATI' | ||