Nvidia, Microsoft intro new programming language

Nvidia introduced this Thursday the new Cg Language Specification - C for Graphics. The company said that Cg is a high level programming language that enables content developers to "create cinematic-quality real-time graphics easier and faster."

The new programming language introduced by Nvidia this week is called Cg and was developed in collaboration with software giant Microsoft. The companies said that the new Cg gives developers a new level of abstraction, removing the need for them to program directly to the graphics hardware. Based on a familiar C-like syntax, Cg was also said to enable rapid development of real-time shaders and visual effects for graphics platforms. It is also compatible with Microsoft’s High Level Shading Language for DirectX 9.0.

Besides introducing the new language, Nvidia unveiled a Cg Toolkit that includes a Cg Compiler, Cg Browser, CgFX file format, Cg Standard Library and a collection of pre-written Cg shaders. This toolkit will be available to developers attending The Gathering 2 conference in London on June 13-14. It can also be downloaded at http://developer.Nvidia.com/cg.

Jen Hsun Huang, CEO at Nvidia, said: “Cg is a significant milestone for the computer graphics industry as it moves real-time 3D graphics programming a quantum leap closer to the programming model of cinematic rendering. Cg will dramatically increase the speed at which increasingly sophisticated and exciting graphics features are adopted. Cg will do for GPUs what C and C++ did for CPUs.”

For those interested, more information about Cg can be found at this Nvidia page.

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(Sources: Nvidia)

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