Shader

Definitions

1. A small program that runs on the GPU to control how vertices, pixels, or compute workloads are processed, written in languages like GLSL, HLSL, or WGSL.

   In plain English: A tiny program that runs on your graphics card to decide how things look — colors, shadows, reflections, post-processing effects.

   Example: "The fragment shader applies a Gaussian blur in real time at 60 fps."

Related Terms

• Data Parallelism
• Physics Body
• Physics Engine
• Scene
• Sprite
• Tween
• WebGPU
• Compute Shader
• Fragment Shader
• Pixel Buffer
• Rasterization
• Render Loop
• Render Pipeline
• Texture
• Vertex
• Vertex Shader