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Buffy, an SL Development Environment

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A development environment for RenderMan shaders has been implemented, allowing the SL programmer to observe the behaviour of variables in both time and space. By allowing both novices and experts to visualize the execution of their code, the creation of shaders is much simplified without restricting the flexibility of the SL language.

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  1. National Centre for Computer Animation, Talbot Campus, Bournemouth University, Poole Dorset, BH12 5BB, UK

    Ian Stephenson

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  1. Department of Electronic Imaging and Media Communications, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP

    Rae Earnshaw

  2. School of Media, Arts and Communication, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB

    John Vince

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Stephenson, I. (2001). Buffy, an SL Development Environment. In: Earnshaw, R., Vince, J. (eds) Digital Content Creation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0293-9_9

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