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I finally found the courage to write and expose myself to the internet. I've always wanted to learn shaders so I thought it would be nice to document my learning and share it with others.
“their parallel nature makes them memoryless and stateless. This translates to: “You can’t store or share data between pixels or shader executions.”” This kind of constraint is so liberating for me for some reason. It just narrows the space a lot I guess. I also kind of love not having imports and libraries as that also really simplifies things.
This really hits the sweet spot for me.
Would love to see tutorials on more topics. In particular, a very basic lighting model but with a detailed breakdown on how normals and dot product work together.
Yes, there's plenty of info out there, but I think your teaching style would still make it worthwhile
I finally found the courage to write and expose myself to the internet. I've always wanted to learn shaders so I thought it would be nice to document my learning and share it with others.
“their parallel nature makes them memoryless and stateless. This translates to: “You can’t store or share data between pixels or shader executions.”” This kind of constraint is so liberating for me for some reason. It just narrows the space a lot I guess. I also kind of love not having imports and libraries as that also really simplifies things.
I might be wrong but there are compute shaders that can retake inputs and well, do more computing on them afaik.
I finally found the courage to write and expose myself to the internet. I've always wanted to learn shaders so I thought it would be nice to document my learning and share it with others.
Thanks a lot for making this, keep doing what you do!
Very nice, I've tried looking at a couple other tutorials in the past but they always assume more prior knowledge than I have. This really hits the sweet spot for me. Would love to see tutorials on more topics. In particular, a very basic lighting model but with a detailed breakdown on how normals and dot product work together. Yes, there's plenty of info out there, but I think your teaching style would still make it…
Minor nitpick: you mention cel shading but spelled it cell -- the term comes from cels used in hand-drawn animations and the quantized tones used in shading there.
I finally found the courage to write and expose myself to the internet. I've always wanted to learn shaders so I thought it would be nice to document my learning and share it with others.
Tangential to the main topic, what generative art artists are you following and/or where did you look to find them? I found a couple myself (@D_VISION7 @lv374 @beesandbombs @HAL09999), but ran into roadblocks trying to find more. There are a few fractals here and there, etc. Shadertoy seemed mostly like math demos/challenges rather than art, or at least it doesn't have an easy way to find the artsy ones.
Personally I really like @KilledByAPixel and @piterpasma simply from a technical perspective. If you're into vector / plotting work @zancan is definitely worth checking out.
“their parallel nature makes them memoryless and stateless. This translates to: “You can’t store or share data between pixels or shader executions.”” This kind of constraint is so liberating for me for some reason. It just narrows the space a lot I guess. I also kind of love not having imports and libraries as that also really simplifies things.
I might be wrong but there are compute shaders that can retake inputs and well, do more computing on them afaik.