Vertex shader

Vertex shader (abbreviation VS) is a shader program, normally executed on the Graphics processing unit.

Contents 1 Function 2 Programming 3 See also 4 References

Function

A vertex shader is a graphics processing function used to add special effects to objects in a 3D environment.

Programming

Vertex shaders are programmed in the following languages: Assembly, Cg, GLSL, HLSL.

See also

• Geometry shader
• Pixel shader
• Graphics pipeline
• Direct3D
• OpenGL

References

• Toymaker - Vertex Shaders. Three vertex shader example codes
• GameDev - Terrain Geomorphing in the Vertex Shader

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