.. _sphx_glr_auto_examples_13_shaders:

Shaders
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These tutorials show:

- How to use shaders in FURY actors.
- How to create new user shaders and internal conventions.



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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="SDFs or Signed-distance functions when passed the coordinates of a point in space, return the s...">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/13_shaders/images/thumb/sphx_glr_viz_sdfactor_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_13_shaders_viz_sdfactor.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Visualize SDF Actor</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="The Principled Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function ([BRDF] (https://en.wikipedia.or...">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/13_shaders/images/thumb/sphx_glr_viz_principled_spheres_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_13_shaders_viz_principled_spheres.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Principled BRDF shader on spheres</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This example shows how to use shaders to generate a shaded output. We will demonstrate how to l...">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/13_shaders/images/thumb/sphx_glr_viz_shader_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_13_shaders_viz_shader.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Varying Color</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="PBR engines aim to simulate properties of light when it interacts with objects in the scene in ...">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/13_shaders/images/thumb/sphx_glr_viz_pbr_spheres_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_13_shaders_viz_pbr_spheres.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Physically-Based Rendering (PBR) on spheres</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Traditional rendering engines discretize surfaces using triangles or quadrilateral polygons. Th...">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/13_shaders/images/thumb/sphx_glr_viz_billboard_sdf_spheres_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_13_shaders_viz_billboard_sdf_spheres.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">SDF Impostors on Billboards</div>
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    <div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="For the cylinder representation with polygons, we will use cylinder actor implementation on FUR...">

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  .. image:: /auto_examples/13_shaders/images/thumb/sphx_glr_viz_sdf_cylinder_thumb.png
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  :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_13_shaders_viz_sdf_cylinder.py`

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      <div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">Make a Cylinder using polygons vs SDF</div>
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    </div>


.. toctree::
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   /auto_examples/13_shaders/viz_sdfactor
   /auto_examples/13_shaders/viz_principled_spheres
   /auto_examples/13_shaders/viz_shader
   /auto_examples/13_shaders/viz_pbr_spheres
   /auto_examples/13_shaders/viz_billboard_sdf_spheres
   /auto_examples/13_shaders/viz_sdf_cylinder