mental images designed MetaSL to encompass the expressive power of all current and future shading languages and shading language standards. Complex cooperating shader graphs can be encapsulated into Phenomena™.
MetaSL shaders and Phenomena are valuable and future-proof assets. They do not need to be re-authored for different target platforms. The built-in proprietary mental mill compiler technology generates abstract syntax tree representations of shaders and Phenomena. These are then translated by back-end plug-in modules into more target platforms with the respective native compilers, including CPUs (C++), GPUs (Cg, GLSL, HLSL) and other current and future platforms, eliminating the need to re-engineer and debug shaders and Phenomena for each of them. Whenever possible, mental mill produces real-time interactive visual feedback using real-time compilation of the resulting code and its immediate execution on the target platform.