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In the old days, programmers were forced to describe their materials in terms of the ten fixed parameters presented by graphics APIs. This design results in the unfortunate situation of one being able to envision a scene without being able to describe it in terms of the API and thus render it to screen (not that we're entirely unlimited with non-parameterized interfaces).