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2021-11-26

Shaders

Shader example

Roughly speaking, a shader is a program that takes in coordinates pixel, time, cursor position, “screen” size, and returns a color, that the pixel should have. Since neighboring pixels don’t know about each other’s state, the shaders parallelize well.

https://www.khronos.org/opengl/wiki/Shader

Shaders are described in GLSL (OpenGL Script Language). For example, to fill the screen with red color you can write:

void main() {
  gl_FragColor=vec4(255, 0, 0, 1);
}

There are several services where you can “play around” with shaders and see the result in real time:

For those who want to dive deeper, I can recommend The Book Of Shaders (in progress) and Twitter accounts:

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