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Hi, recently, I started studying and developing simple , “fragment shaders”, to be precise. I discovered there are various little platforms like shadertoy.com but also the less-known oneshader.net (and even editor.thebookofshaders.com) where it’s possible to develop and share “toy” shaders without the need to have ultra-advanced skills on OpenGL, WebGL, etc.

Developing these shaders is a fun (really entertaining!) activity that nicely combines , , and . I have already made some shaders on Shadertoy, which you can see here:

➡️ shadertoy.com/user/andbin

At this time, I am unable to develop very sophisticated/stunning shaders. Anyway, my actual shaders seem nice and pleasant. Feel free to comment here (or on Shadertoy) if you like my shaders. Clearly, I am still at the beginning! Thanks.

I can check off one task for today. I started realizing recently that you can treat a dot product like a 'custom' axis, which meant I should be able to use it to draw regular sided polygons. Well, here we are.

I was pulling my hair out trying to go the last little bit from 'buzzsaw blade' to 'regular polygon', and it turns out I'd nudged a box accidentally and was using something near-but-not-quite the constant I needed. Doh.
#Blender3D #B3D #ShaderArt

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Middle o' the damn night mograph. I was working on the fruit texture again, and struck on an interesting looking pattern, so I started working with it, and... well, I suddenly realized that all these square looping animations with central composition could probably be layered on top of each other.

100% pure shaders. I think I might change my name to this.

And I think its name is The Spinning Kaleidoscope of Awesome™️

Evening mograph. So... I was mucking about in the shader lab, trying to come up with a way to make procedural sliced cartoon fruit of all things, when I realized I could make a radially tiling coordinate space with arctangent and length... and once I had that, I plugged in a texture and started rotating & messing with it. At one stage here, I'm doing a screen color blend with negative values, and I'm not sure what it does but it looks cool.
#Blender3D #B3D #GenerativeArt #ShaderArt