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The gentle way into fragment shaders, with every example editable in the page and redrawing itself as you type.
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The Book of Shaders sits in Generative Art under Make, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Algorithms as a medium: flow fields, particle systems, tilings and fractals you can steer. Output tends to be wallpaper-grade within a minute.
Yes. The Book of Shaders is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use The Book of Shaders without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file The Book of Shaders as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Plotter art drawn by a virtual turtle in a hundred-odd lines of JavaScript, with everybody's source code on display.
Real-time fractal zoomer ported to the browser, smooth enough that the boundary keeps unfolding as fast as you dive.
Botanical infinite zoom drifting through flowers, insects and quiet ruins. Best left running on a second screen.
Sculpt a glossy blob with sliders for noise, light and iridescence, then leave it rotating and admire your handiwork.
Combine shapes with union, subtract and intersect to hit a target silhouette in as few operations as you can manage.
Profiles of thousands of American cold case disappearances, written and maintained by one person for decades.
Every component you might need to build, with links to how twenty different design systems each named and handled it.
Scroll from the surface to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, meeting every creature at the depth it actually lives.
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