Articles, Forums & Contests for shaders.

i concur good sir. It is definitely a growing area of interest.

afaik - the current contests are for all aspects of game programming - including graphics programming and shaders.

as for articles well this seems like a decent collection .

I think a general purpose shader programming forum would be a good idea however,

I do like the idea of a shader-related forum, but it seems there are already three forums that do the job:

DirectX - A good place for the implementation details in D3D (e.g. effect framework and HLSL)
OpenGL - same sort of thing, but for those working via the OpenGL API..
Graphics Programming & Theory - as the name suggests, this is the more general side of things and good for the non-implementation specifics.

At least, I find a combination of the DX and GP&T forums to answer all of my shader specific questions [smile]

In the past, the staff have said they won't open new forums unless there's an obvious demand - e.g. if the shader content was swamping out all other DirectX stuff such that it started to have an adverse effect, then maybe they would.

hth
Jack