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Getting Started with Slang: Modularization

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 8d

try.shader-slang.org might suffice if syntax is what you're after? It's Slang rather than HLSL, but Slang's syntax is HLSL-flavored.

Reposted by Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025

Slang Shading Language and Compiler @shader-slang.bsky.social · Sep 9

Join us this morning for the next Getting Started with Slang webinar. Today, we will be focusing on Modularization. Register and join us!

Slang Shading Language and Compiler @shader-slang.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us tomorrow for Getting Started with Slang: Modularization! We’ll explore: Modules & Visibility Control, Compilation Pipeline Magic, and Specialization Without Preprocessor Pain.

Learn more and register: shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...
#shader #slang #workflow

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Sep 6

Want to organize your shader code better *and* achieve faster compile times? Check out the upcoming Slang virtual meetup session on modularization, Tuesday Sept 9, hosted by Yong He! shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Aug 20

It's one of the scenes I remember best from Huck Finn, because it seemed really counterintuitive to me as a skirt-wearer!

Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Aug 20

That tidbit is stolen from Huckleberry Finn, so as far as I'm aware it was written by Mark Twain, and you are therefore correct.

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Aug 13

It's almost time for the Slang BoF at #SIGGRAPH2025 ! Join us at 2:30pm PDT today in the Fairmont Waterfront, Waterfront Ballroom.

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The Khronos Group @khronos.org · Aug 13

Today, we are having our Birds of a Feather sessions at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel starting at 9:00. Come to hear updates from 3D Commerce, ANARI, glTF, Machine Learning Council, OpenXR, Slang, Vulkan and WebGL!

Get the full schedule on our website: www.khronos.org/events/siggr...
#SIGGRAPH2025

Join us at the Khronos Group BOF Day at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Aug 11

It's almost time for the @khronos.org Fast Forward! I'll be giving a tiny preview of what's on deck for the Wednesday @shader-slang.bsky.social BoF. East Building, room 15, starting at 10am.

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Aug 10

The Introduction to Slang lab at #SIGGRAPH2025 is standing room only-- but if you're not able to get in, you can still take a look at the materials, including our interactive examples, linked from our SIGGRAPH landing page: shader-slang.org/landing/sigg...

Slang at SIGGRAPH 2025

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Aug 9

I'm headed to SIGGRAPH later today! A quick summary of where you can find Slang, and what's in our latest release, here on the Slang devblog: shader-slang.org/blog/2025/08...

Slang at SIGGRAPH 2025

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Aug 8

Tired: AI is untrustworthy because it can't figure out how many B's are in "blueberry"

Wired: AI is untrustworthy because it does not appreciate my darkly whimsical sartorial sense.

A Google Gemini prompt and response reading:

User: I am attending SIGGRAPH next week for professional reasons. I will be packing a button-down sleeveless shirt printed with Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Should I wear this shirt:

A. When assisting with a computer lab
B. When presenting at a Fast Forward session
C. When leading a Birds of a Feather session
D. When meeting with professional associates
E. All of the above

Gemini: None of the above. You should not wear a shirt printed with Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights at SIGGRAPH, regardless of the setting.

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 31

I'm also going to stick my head into some of the interesting stuff going on with Gaussian splatting standards as much as I can (as an attendee, not a speaker).

If you want to track me down and pick my brain about Slang, Gaussian splatting, neural shading, or standardization, give me a ping! (6/6)

Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 31

I'll also be speaking briefly at the Khronos Fast Forward. (5/6)

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 31

An Introduction to Neural Shading

Slang will feature heavily in this course that covers neural shading, all the way from fundamentals to the nitty-gritty of hardware acceleration and deployment. (4/6)

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 31

The Slang Birds of a Feather, where I'll be talking about what the Slang community has been up to, and we'll have presentations from teams working with Slang with insights to share -- plus, Yong He will talk about Slang's future and roadmap. (3/6)

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 31

Hands-on Class: Introduction to Slang
Sunday, 10 August 2025
4:00pm - 5:30pm PDT

This session will get you writing Slang shaders within the first few minutes! (2/6)

s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

GitHub - elcuppietan/ancient-snowman: My first GL-based application, from way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and ARB_vertex_shader had not yet been released.

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 31

SIGGRAPH is almost here, and there's going to be a Heckin Lot o' Slang there. We'll put up a full post on the devblog with more info, but if you're already building your schedule, here's some stuff to earmark! (1/6)

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 24

BEHOLD MY DERPY LIL SON! (He's old enough to drink.)

A very rudimentary snowman, rendered with OpenGL 1.0, on a transparent red block, against a background of a densely repeating set of stones.

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 24

If ever you feel like your code is Real Dumb and you'll never get into graphics, please take a look at my very first OpenGL project, which I recently unearthed on an old drive. It is indeed Real Dumb, and yet I persisted. You can too!

github.com/elcuppietan/...

My first GL-based application, from way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and ARB_vertex_shader had not yet been released. - elcuppietan/ancient-snowman

github.com

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 21

Fixed!

Neural Graphics: Speeding It Up with Wave Intrinsics

Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 21

Ah, looks like I'm having trouble with the "featured" label in our content management software. Thank you for the heads up! I'll fix that ASAP.

Reposted by Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025

Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 17

Been a little while since the last one, but I'm back with installment number three in my neural graphics intro series. This one covers using wave intrinsics to get a speed boost-- a traditional compute technique that's just as useful in the neutral graphics space.

shader-slang.org/blog/2025/07...

Neural Graphics: Speeding It Up with Wave Intrinsics

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · Jul 17

Been a little while since the last one, but I'm back with installment number three in my neural graphics intro series. This one covers using wave intrinsics to get a speed boost-- a traditional compute technique that's just as useful in the neutral graphics space.

shader-slang.org/blog/2025/07...