25 stories tagged shaders, newest first.
59 points by ibobev | 18 comments
A blog post examining cut and disabled rendering features in Sonic 06, such as shader variants, shadow maps, point lights and reflections, found while building Marathon Recompiled.
58 points by ibobev | 2 comments
Catlike Coding tutorial, ninth in a Godot procedural GPU patterns series, showing how to make value noise tile seamlessly in a shader and wrap it around a torus.
138 points by ibobev | 10 comments
A devlog post, part 34 of a series on the sea exploration game Around The World, about rendering a pretty sky.
14 points by michael-sumner | 0 comments
A blog post by Maxime Heckel explaining dithering and retro shading techniques implemented as post-processing effects with WebGL shaders and React Three Fiber.
57 points by jinqueeny | 27 comments
GitHub repository for Shaders, an MIT-licensed library of WebGPU shader components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, plain JavaScript, and Framer.
78 points by luu | 6 comments
Matt Keeter blog post on testing that WebGPU/WGSL shader struct data layouts match host-side Rust types using the Facet reflection library.
59 points by SouthWestAtlas | 10 comments
A collection of CC0-licensed retro 3D graphics demos (plasma, starfield, etc.) implemented in WebGL 1 or 2D canvas for copying into web pages.
514 points by ibobev | 40 comments
A blog post by Maxime Heckel exploring atmospheric scattering and how to render realistic skies, sunsets, and planets with shaders.
370 points by Garbage | 79 comments
A chapter from Making Software explaining how shaders draw high-fidelity graphics using only x and y pixel coordinates; the capture shows a Vercel security checkpoint.
453 points by AbuAssar | 90 comments
A Shadertoy shader titled "Human Fovea Detector" that visually reveals the viewer's foveal region; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
659 points by memalign | 109 comments
An interactive web demo rendering a digital clock with liquid-glass style digits that morph between numbers over a dark glowing background.
463 points by ibobev | 46 comments
Blog post by Nikos Papadopoulos explaining how to build a custom Three.js shader that recreates an iridescent foil sticker effect with vertex deformation and procedural flakes.
390 points by ibobev | 121 comments
A blog post by a graphics programmer explaining techniques for rendering crisp, high-quality text on the GPU.
395 points by romes | 192 comments
Inigo Quilez article correcting the misconception that GPU conditionals should be replaced with mix() and step() in shader code.
511 points by alexanderameye | 56 comments
A blog post explaining five different techniques for rendering object outlines in Unity games, with examples from games like Sable and The Last of Us.
435 points by ChadNauseam | 56 comments
An interactive browser-based WebGL fluid simulation demo with adjustable parameters like vorticity, pressure, bloom, and sunrays.
525 points by todsacerdoti | 84 comments
A blog post on FrostKiwi's Secrets explaining anti-aliasing techniques like SSAA, SMAA, and DLAA, then introducing analytical anti-aliasing in shaders.
495 points by CharlesW | 101 comments
A TIGSource forum devlog post by Lucas Pope on stabilizing the 1-bit dithering effect in Return of the Obra Dinn so it doesn't swim with camera motion.
767 points by RafelMri | 95 comments
GitHub repository for GodotOceanWaves, an MIT-licensed FFT-based ocean-wave rendering implementation for the Godot engine.
602 points by todsacerdoti | 102 comments
A blog post explaining how video games use color lookup tables (LUTs) for tinting and color grading, with WebGL examples showing how to implement them.
498 points by laurentlb | 133 comments
Ctrl-Alt-Test, a French demoscene group, explains how they made the animated short 'The Sheep and the Flower' as an 8kB executable.
338 points by jjwiseman | 67 comments
An interactive web toy that lets users write GLSL fragment shaders rendered onto a simulated Las Vegas Sphere over aerial footage of the Strip.
465 points by superMayo | 65 comments
An interactive blog post, Part I of 'A Journey Into Shaders,' introducing shader programming by building a blob with editable code and sliders.
373 points by bpierre | 74 comments
Human Shader is a crowdsourced project where people compute shader pixels by hand with arithmetic to collectively render an image without a computer.
377 points by itsuka | 169 comments
WebGPU Fundamentals is a site of tutorial articles teaching WebGPU, covering basics like uniforms, storage buffers, vertex buffers, and textures.