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Shaders give your programs the ability to take full advantage of the GPU for graphical effects and more. Some common use cases are creating materials applied to 3D objects, and other general filters or effects. The specifics of shaders programming are not unique to the application programming framework you are using. While this post will focus mostly on creating materials in 3D with the Delphi FireMonkey framework, you can easily use what you learn in your programming language and framework of choice. For example, our Lumicademy product looks like a 2D application, but the main form is actually a 3D form built with Firemonkey. This enables us to very efficiently render multiple live videos and other content to the screen using specialized GPU shaders.