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Decoding: Phosphor
How I created "Phosphor", with glowing, fluid particles, in just 258 chars
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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
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Common Shader Mistakes
Avoiding the most common problems in graphics programming
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Combining Shaders
How and when to combine shaders into a single shader pass.
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Vertex Shaders
An introduction to vertex shaders: when and how to use them
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WebGPU
The new web standard for accelerated graphics and compute
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MRT
How to output to multiple surfaces simultaneously (Multiple Render Targets)
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Mini: Twigl
Porting tweet shaders to GameMaker!
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Mini: Optimization
Let's go over some general shader tricks that can help you write more efficient code!
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Mini: HLSL
Today, we're covering an alternative shader langauge called HLSL. If you know the differences between GLSL and HLSL, you can port your shaders between…
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Mini: Code Golfing
Good afternoon,This tutorial is a little bit different. Today we're talking about "code golfing".Code golfing is a coding exercise where you take a…
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Mini: Recursive shaders
Good afternoon. Today's mini tutorial is about recursive shader effects, that is Shaders that can be applied to the same surface over and over again.
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