Remember the API wars? They’re Baaaack
You can thank AI for the chaos.
Khronos Vulkan cross-platform road map
An API for all client devices.
Khronos brings Vulkanization back to the US
An archaic name for an advance API.
Khronos unleashes Anari on the rendering community
Scene graphs will now have first-class citizenship.
Khronos: Who knows what the future will hold?
Khronos launches a Vulkan roadmap policy
Khronos: Who knows what the future will hold?
“WorkSpace” by Gamma-Ray Productions is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0 From the organization that stabilized the API wars in 2000 and empowered the extraordinary growth of the smartphone market comes a vision of the future. Khronos has grown to over 180 members in one of the most extraordinary non-profit organizations for 3D graphics, augmented and virtual reality, parallel programming, … Read more
Anari—come together, over me
In November 2019, open standard API developer and harmonizing industry force, Khronos, enthralled developers and users alike with their proposed data visualization initiative to work on a cross-platform analytical rendering API. Prior to Khronos gathering the SciViz world, developers working in scientific visualization faced a chaotic, waring gaggle of awkward, conflicting, and confusing plug-ins, interfaces, and wannabe APIs. No one … Read more
Vulkan has a new home—and look
The new site has a whole page dedicated to Vulkan tools and support, giving developers access to SDKs, profilers, debuggers, libraries, language bindings, game engines, and frameworks
Khronos and EMVA unite over open camera and sensor API exploration
Khronos and the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), the European industry association for vision technology, announced the formation of an Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group. The group is open to all at no cost for exploring industry interest in the creation of open royalty-free API standards for controlling embedded cameras and sensors. Khronos says there are multiple vectors impinging on … Read more
Meshing around with shaders coming with DirectX Ultimate
Mesh Shading comes with DirectX updates; and UL benchmarks measure its value
Meshing around with shaders coming with DirectX Ultimate
In late 2019 Microsoft announced it would make a major upgrade to its Windows API DirectX12. The company said it would add two new shader stages: the Mesh Shader and the Amplification Shader. Mesh shaders incorporate most aspects of Vertex (VS) and Geometry shaders (GS) into one shader stage by processing batches of vertices and primitives before the rasterizer. The … Read more
Visualization for everyone: Khronos starts development of ANARI—an ANAlytic Rendering Interface API
New ANARI API will streamline data visualization Analytic rendering is image generation performed primarily to gain and communicate insights into complex data sets. Scientific visualization is the primary application domain using analytic rendering today, followed by the emerging data analytics space. Recent advances in rendering technology for image generation—especially the introduction of real-time ray tracing—significantly advanced data visualization and … Read more