Neoptica has recently posted a whitepaper, “Programmable Graphics—The Future of Interactive Rendering.” It introduces the coming era of programmable graphics, in which developers implement rendering algorithms using combinations of parallel CPU and GPU tasks executing cooperatively on heterogeneous multi-core architectures of the near future. By embracing both task- and data-parallel computation, this approach frees developers to use the most efficient parallel computation style for their algorithms, and makes it possible to define custom graphics pipelines built using complex algorithms and dynamic data structures. The paper argues that future graphics applications that leverage the tightly coupled capabilities of forthcoming CPUs and GPUs will generate far richer and more realistic imagery, use computational resources more efficiently, and scale to large numbers of CPU and GPU cores.