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Shadertoy is a web based platform for developing, sharing, learning, getting inspiration and teaching GLSL based shading. Developers create shaders using a live environment that allows them to see the final results as they are coding. These creations can react to different inputs such us music, videos, time of the day, and others. Shadertoy.com also introduces a social platform, which makes it a place to give feedback, promote great work, and share creations regardless of being an industry professional or students/hobbyists. The website has been running for a couple of months and has grown rapidly with beautiful works showing a great variety of rendering techniques, from post processing effects, procedural raymarchers, raytracers and demoscene pieces to simple 2D procedural graphics.

GLSL Hacker is a cross-platform utility (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) for coding 3D demos and prototypes with GLSL, Lua and Python programming languages. GLSL Hacker 0.5.0 adds the support of Python 2.7, improves compute shaders support and fixes many bugs.

The NVIDIA Developer Tools team is proud to announce the final release of NVIDIA® Nsight Development Platform, Visual Studio Edition 3.0, an application development platform for heterogeneous systems. This new release officially supports OpenGL frame debugging and profiling, GLSL GPU shader debugging, local single GPU shader debugging, the new Kepler GK110 architecture found in Tesla K20 & GeForce GTX TITAN, and CUDA 5.0. This release requires NVIDIA Display Driver Release 319 or newer.

The SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK for OpenGL now lets you switch between the new Hosek-Wilkie model presented at the 2012 SIGGRAPH conference, and the 1999 Preetham model for simulating real-time skies for any time and location. A video’s been prepared using SilverLining comparing its extensions to the two models.

After GpuTest said it could do tessellation shaders under mac OSX i decided to investigate how to do this as it’s an undocumented feature. This blog post shows how to define the tessellation control and evaluation shaders under mac osx and also how to enable the drawing of GL_PATCHES.