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4<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="mathml.xsl"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:pref="http://www.w3.org/2002/Math/preference" pref:renderer="mathplayer-dl"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="opengl-man.css" /><title>dFdx, dFdy - OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.69.1" /></head><body><div class="refentry" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="dFdx"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>dFdx, dFdy — return the partial derivative of an argument with respect to x or y</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Declaration</h2><div class="funcsynopsis"><p><code class="funcdef">genType <b class="fsfunc">dFdx</b>(</code>genType <var class="pdparam">p</var><code>)</code>;</p><p><code class="funcdef">genType <b class="fsfunc">dFdy</b>(</code>genType <var class="pdparam">p</var><code>)</code>;</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="parameters"></a><h2>Parameters</h2><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>p</code></em></span></dt><dd><p>
5 Specifies the expression of which to take the partial derivative.
6 </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="description"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>
7 <span class="emphasis"><em>Available only in the fragment shader</em></span>, <code class="function">dFdx</code> and <code class="function">dFdy</code>
8 return the partial derivative of expression <em class="parameter"><code>p</code></em> in x and y, respectively. Deviatives are calculated
9 using local differencing. Expressions that imply higher order derivatives such as <code class="code">dFdx(dFdx(n))</code> have undefined
10 results, as do mixed-order derivatives such as <code class="code">dFdx(dFdy(n))</code>.
11 It is assumed that the expression <em class="parameter"><code>p</code></em> is continuous and therefore, expressions evaluated
12 via non-uniform control flow may be undefined.
13 </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="versions"></a><h2>Version Support</h2><div class="informaltable"><table border="1"><colgroup><col align="left" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /><col align="center" /></colgroup><thead><tr><th align="left"><span class="bold"><strong>Function</strong></span></th><th align="left"><span class="bold"><strong>Version 1.10</strong></span></th><th align="left"><span class="bold"><strong>Version 1.20</strong></span></th><th align="left"><span class="bold"><strong>Version 1.30</strong></span></th><th align="left"><span class="bold"><strong>Version 1.40</strong></span></th><th align="left"><span class="bold"><strong>Version 1.50</strong></span></th><th align="left"><span class="bold"><strong>Version 3.30</strong></span></th><th align="left"><span class="bold"><strong>Version 4.00</strong></span></th><th align="left"><span class="bold"><strong>Version 4.10</strong></span></th><th align="left"><span class="bold"><strong>Version 4.20</strong></span></th><th align="center"><span class="bold"><strong>Version 4.30</strong></span></th></tr><tr><th align="left">dFdx</th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th></tr><tr><th align="left">dFdy</th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th><th align="center"><span class="emphasis"><em>Y</em></span></th></tr></thead></table></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="seealso"></a><h2>See Also</h2><p>
14 <a href="fwidth.xml"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">fwidth</span></span></a>
15 </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><a id="Copyright"></a><h2>Copyright</h2><p>
16 Copyright <span class="trademark"></span>© 2011 Khronos Group.
17 This material may be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
18 the Open Publication License, v 1.0, 8 June 1999.
19 <a href="http://opencontent.org/openpub/" target="_top">http://opencontent.org/openpub/</a>.
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