GM Shaders

Video Interview with Outsider Supply

Talking shaders, art and games

7 hrs ago • 

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Dot Noise

A cheap alternative to 3D simplex noise

Sep 5 • 

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August 2025

Functions: Mix

An overview of the mix function, how it works and some unusual uses

Aug 30 • 

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Volumetric Raymarching

Rendering clouds, fire, smoke, light rays and more with raymarching

Aug 23 • 

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July 2025

Decoding: Phosphor

How I created "Phosphor", with glowing, fluid particles, in just 258 chars

Jul 26 • 

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Efficient Chaos

Techniques I use for fast pseudo-randomness in pixel shaders

Jul 10 • 

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June 2025

Modeling the World in 280 Characters

An exploration of the mindset, methods, and motivations behind crafting tiny, expressive shaders that combine code, art, and constraint

Jun 23 • 

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May 2025

Functions: Tanh

An introduction to the hyperbolic tangent function and how to use it

May 31 • 

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Mini: Design Choices

The guidelines I use to visually improve my shader art

May 19 • 

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April 2025

Common Shader Mistakes

Avoiding the most common problems in graphics programming

Apr 26 • 

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Combining Shaders

How and when to combine shaders into a single shader pass.

Apr 19 • 

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Reading Math Papers

An overview of mathematics for programmers

Apr 10 • 

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