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Chas Boyd

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About Chas Boyd

Affiliations

Microsoft

Bio

SIGGRAPH 2010

Chas. Boyd is a software architect at Microsoft. Chas. joined the Direct3D team in 1995 and has contributed to releases since DirectX 3. Over that time he has worked closely with hardware and software developers to drive the adoption of features like programmable hardware shaders and float pixel processing. He has developed and demonstrated initial hardware-accelerated versions of techniques like hardware soft skinning, and hemispheric lighting with ambient occlusion. He is currently working on the design of future DirectX releases and related components.  

Conference Contributions

Experiences

Birds of a Feather

2018 SIGGRAPH Birds of a Feather Image Not Available
HLSL Realtime Shading Language
SIGGRAPH 2018
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Learning

Courses

2011 12 Beyond Programmable Shading II
Beyond Programmable Shading II
SIGGRAPH 2011
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2010 19 Beyond Programmable Shading I
Beyond Programmable Shading I
SIGGRAPH 2010
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2010 21 Beyond Programmable Shading II
Beyond Programmable Shading II
SIGGRAPH 2010
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2008 Course Cover 06 Beyond Programmable Shading Fundamentals
Beyond Programmable Shading: Fundamentals
SIGGRAPH 2008
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2007 Course Cover 05 Introduction to Direct3D 10
Introduction to Direct3D 10
SIGGRAPH 2007
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2002 17 Course Cover State of the Art in Hardware Shading
State of the Art in Hardware Shading
SIGGRAPH 2002
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2001 52 Course Cover DirectX 8 Graphics
DirectX 8 Graphics
SIGGRAPH 2001
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Panels

1980 Panels 04 The Users View of CAD CAM
The user's view of CAD/CAM
SIGGRAPH 1980
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