In the era of AI writing shaders for you, should you still learn shaders?
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An interactive course uses a planet drawn by a single vertex shader and fragment shader to break down the complete rendering pipeline from data, vertices, rasterization, and fragments to output, and the final lesson requires learners to rewrite this planet by hand. The course can be started from any chapter in the table of contents and returned to at any time. The course is built around the question "When AI can write shaders for you, should you still learn shaders?" but the report does not give a conclusion to this question.
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This is the prologue of a course on shaders, presenting a planet drawn by one vertex shader and one fragment shader that you can spin by dragging the canvas. The course breaks the planet down into data, vertices, rasterization, fragments and output, and in the last lesson you rewrite it yourself. It notes the shading appears in bands rather than a smooth gradient, and says you can start from any chapter in the contents.
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