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ATI Releases Competition for NVIDIA's Cg

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the battle-of-the-3d-languages dept.

death00 writes "ATI has released a beta of RenderMonkey, their suite of open, extensible shader development tools. ATI showed these tools for the first time at Siggraph 2002. Should be interesting to see who wins the shader development race, NVIDIA's Cg, RenderMonkey or whatever 3Dlabs has on the go."

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  1. Render Monkey? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    All right, let's get all the name jokes out of the way now.

    Or maybe ATI did it on purpose, I mean what would you rather program in Cg or RenderMonkey.... it's a no brainer!

    1. Re:Render Monkey? by fataugie · · Score: 5, Funny

      So is the debugger called SpankTheMonkey?

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      WTF? Over?

  2. What does that look like on your CV? by brejc8 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Experience in C, C++, x86 Assembler, Cg, Render Monkey, Will work for peanuts.

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    Mouse powered Chips, Open source Processors and Lego
    1. Re:What does that look like on your CV? by Misagon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Will work for peanuts.

      I used that phrase in a job application once.
      It got me an interview, but they turned me down once I had explained to them that I was only using a metaphore.
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      "We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
  3. Its sort of like evolution... by thelinuxking · · Score: 5, Funny

    Except its backwards...First they have RenderMan, then RenderMonkey.

  4. monkey by !splut · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, if we go on the basis of clever names, ATI wins hands down. Plus, monkeys have always made me think of high quality shaders.

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    The angel in the oatmeal.