Per-vertex lighting

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Per-Vertex Lighting, also known as Gouraud Shading, calculates lighting at each vertex, which is then linearly interpolated between vertices. The result is a polygonal appearance.

Per-Vertex Lighting was a popular method of real time lighting until shaders and Per-Pixel Lighting because available in DirectX 8 and 9. It is mostly used now on mobile and portable devices that lack powerful GPUs.

[edit] See Also

• Per-Pixel Lighting
• Vertex Shader
• Fixed-Function Pipeline