Cg (programming Language)

Cg (programming Language)

Cg (short for C for Graphics) is a high-level shading language developed by Nvidia in close collaboration with Microsoft for programming vertex and pixel shaders. It is very similar to Microsoft's HLSL.

Cg is based on the C programming language and although they share the same syntax, some features of C were modified and new data types were added to make Cg more suitable for programming graphics processing units.

This language is only suitable for GPU programming and is not a general programming language.

The Cg compiler outputs DirectX or OpenGL shader programs.