NVIDIA Cg TRAINING WORKSHOPS AT SIGGRAPH ALREADY FULL
Company Adds Evening Sessions To Accommodate High
Developer Demand
SANTA CLARA, CA - JULY 18, 2002 - NVIDIAÒ Corporation (Nasdaq:
NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced it
has added evening sessions to meet high developer demand for Cg education at the
SIGGRAPH 2002 conference. In addition to the 12 planned sessions over July
22-25, NVIDIA will offer a 5:30-7:00 p.m. workshop on July 22, 23 and 24.
Pre-registration for these evening sessions is available at
http://developer.nvidia.com/view.asp?FO=shaderworkshop.
NVIDIA will also make additional seats available in its daytime sessions for
on-site registrants.
Emerging as 'C' for the graphics world, this high-level
language revolutionises the development of film-like special effects for
real-time desktop applications, including digital content creation (DCC), games,
and computer-aided design (CAD). Each 90-minute Cg Shader Workshop session will
introduce developers and artists to the tools and workflow for real-time shader
development. The workshop also includes the chance to write a number of shader
programs. Classes are limited to 20 students for maximum effectiveness and will
be taught by NVIDIA OpenGL and DirectX developer technology engineers. The
seminar is geared toward graphics programmers and technical directors in search
of easier and more powerful methods of writing compelling real-time effects.
"Cg represents a major advancement for achieving
real-time cinematic effects," explains Dan Vivoli, Vice President of Marketing
at NVIDIA. "This training seminar series gives developers a great opportunity to
try out the NVIDIA Cg Toolkit in an intimate setting and under the careful
guidance of our technical experts. They'll see for themselves how much faster
and easier it is to program effects in a common, familiar C-like syntax."
The industry-standard Cg Language was developed in close
collaboration with Microsoft Corporation and is compatible with Microsoft's
recently-announced High Level Shading Language for DirectX 9.0. The Cg Language
gives content developers a new level of abstraction, removing the need for them
to program directly to the graphics hardware assembly language, and thereby more
easily target OpenGL, DirectX 8.0 and DirectX 9.0.
Last month, NVIDIA announced the NVIDIA Cg Toolkit,
comprised of the NVIDIA Cg Compiler 1.0, optimised for DirectX and OpenGL; the
NVIDIA Cg Browser, a prototyping/visualisation environment with a large library
of Cg shaders; a CgFX file format; the Cg Standard Library and a collection of
pre-written Cg shaders which can be used for a variety of applications, ranging
from game development to digital content creation and computer-aided design. The
NVIDIA Cg Toolkit and other user documentation can be downloaded at
http://developer.nvidia.com/cg.
For more information about NVIDIA Cg solutions, please visit the NVIDIA Web site
at:
www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=cg
. For a community perspective on Cg and shaders, visit the Web site:
www.cgshaders.org
http://www.cgshaders.org. To hear what developers
are saying about Cg, please visit
www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=cg_testimonials.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq - NVDA), located in Santa
Clara, CA, is the global leader in advanced graphics and multimedia processing
technology for the consumer and professional computing markets. Its 2D, 3D,
video and multimedia capabilities make NVIDIA one of the premier semiconductor
companies in the world. NVIDIA offers a wide range of products and services,
delivering superior performance and crisp visual quality for PC-based
applications such as manufacturing, science, e-business, entertainment and
education.
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