To me one of the oddest things about all this is that a lot of people think about the noise function, and nobody really thinks about where shaders come from.<\/p>\n
I am glad that I came up with the noise function, and it’s incredibly useful. I use it every day.<\/p>\n
But my real contribution to the field from that time was introducing procedural shaders. When I presented that work during a session at Siggraph 1984, some people from Pixar were in the audience.<\/p>\n
After the Pixar folks saw what a full shader language could do, they pivoted from Shade Trees (essentially a fixed expression parser) to what eventually became Renderman — a fully functional shader language that became an industry standard.<\/p>\n
But the ripples spread even wider than that.<\/p>\n
More tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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