MetaSL — Shading Language Tutorial and Reference
Draft releases

 
1   March 21, 2011

Chapters of the MetaSL book will be posted on the website in both HTML and PDF formats as they are written. This page will describe the main components of each release. The HTML and PDF versions of a chapter will be posted at the same time, so the HTML date (in the upper right corner of the page) will tell you if you have an older version of a particular chapter.

The structure and contents of earlier chapters may change as required by the development of later chapters. The reference pages, based as they are on the MetaSL specification, will not change between MetaSL specification versions, though improvements may be made in the way the content is hyperlinked and cross-referenced.

1   March 21, 2011

Initial release. First four chapters:

  1. MetaSL — Strategy and scope
  2. Elements of the MetaSL language
  3. Basic surface shaders
  4. Rendering state

Initial set of hyperlinked reference pages generated from the source text of the MetaSL specification.