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by callumlocke • 9 years ago

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tehsauce• 9 years ago

Yes! I want to see more shadertoy on HN

ekr• 9 years ago

I don't, apparently the site has been hugged to death. (almost, the shader is working but CSS and other static resources aren't).

conorcleary• 9 years ago

Opening this in the background with the speakers on was an unexpected experience.

frenchie4111• 9 years ago

I reopened it in the background just to see how this would feel

ereyes01• 9 years ago

I have never heard of shadertoy, and had no idea what a shader was, until I watched this video made by the creator of the cool effect in the TFA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5HAYVHsasc

Pretty fun stuff

eltoozero• 9 years ago

Shadertoy, be prepared to lose a few hours.

Very demoscene.

It's wonderful that many of these load in the blink of an eye and run silky smooth even on a 2 year old iPhone.

Joky• 9 years ago

Shadertoy is one of the main source of benchmark for a GPU compiler: the iOS (LLVM based) shader compiler is heavily optimized toward these.

chrisper2• 9 years ago

Here is an interesting one (including the comments): https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XtlSD7

// Interesting findings from original NES Super Mario Bros.:
// -Clouds and brushes of all sizes are drawn using the same small sprite (32x24)
// -Hills, clouds and bushes weren't placed manually. Every background object type is repeated after 768 pixels.
// -Overworld (main theme) drum sound uses only the APU noise generator

diimdeep• 9 years ago

You don't need math they say..

tw1010• 9 years ago

Never blindly listen to advice.

dahart2• 9 years ago

What an awesome moody shader! The bar is high on shadertoy and there are some amazing shaders, but the aesthetic of this one is a rare gem.

Here's the author's video of the shader, for anyone on a device that doesn't display the shader or play the audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrxZ4AZPdOQ

Lewton• 9 years ago

The bar is high on shadertoy and there are some amazing shaders

Anyone willing to share? :)

dualogy2• 9 years ago

You can http://shadertoy.com/browse by New, Popular, Hot and Love

dahart2• 9 years ago

Check out https://www.shadertoy.com/user/iq

Kiro• 9 years ago

I want to upload a WebGL demo I've made but I don't understand where I input the vertex shader, only the fragment shader. The site lacks info on how it works.

dualogy2• 9 years ago

That's the whole point of ShaderToy AFAIK: no geometry, all pixel magic. Whatever you see on there is entirely frag-shaders. If it looks like geometry, it's still just funky fancy formulas in image space

ttoinou• 9 years ago

The Kiss of Death for ST... hope it'll be back soon

2T1Qka0rEiPr• 9 years ago

This page seems completely broken to me? (or I don't know what I'm looking at)

Flavius• 9 years ago

Same here. But the music is sweet.

sxsde• 9 years ago

Looks like css is missing.

chrisper2• 9 years ago

It used to work many hours ago.

throwanem• 9 years ago

PSA: If you're seeing broken behavior out of the shadertoy page proper, try this link to the embed version, which can also be fullscreened.

https://www.shadertoy.com/embed/MdfBRX?gui=true&t=10&paused=...

Jyefet• 9 years ago

Is there a way to make this my screensaver?

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