Careful what you wish for - an irreverent look at the evolution of graphics APIs

Dave Shreiner
Low-level graphics team lead Unity Technologies

Stevenson Hall 1300
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Technologists always search for better solutions to problems, and interfacing with GPUs is no exception.  In the almost four decades of commercially-available, hardware-accelerated computer graphics, there have been numerous APIs designed for the task.  This talk takes a look a how some of those interfaces have changed over time, and the impacts that their design has had in application performance, educational aspects, and engineer productivity.