Shaders

Links

• Shader Toy - Build and Share your best shaders with the world and get inspired.
• Euc - Software rendering crate that lets you write shaders with Rust.
• The Book of Shaders - Gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders. (HN) (HN)
• ShaderLand
• 3D Game Shaders For Beginners - Step-by-step guide on how to implement SSAO, depth of field, lighting, normal mapping, and more for your 3D game.
• Playing around with shaders (2019)
• Open Shading Language - Advanced shading language for production GI renderers.
• SHADERed - Lightweight, cross-platform & full-featured desktop tool for creating and testing HLSL and GLSL shaders.
• Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions (2020)
• Naga - Experimental shader translation library for the needs of gfx-rs project and WebGPU.
• Software Renderer - Shader-based software renderer written from scratch in C89.
• MatCaps - Huge library of MatCap textures in PNG and ZMT.
• Shader Doodle - Friendly web-component for writing and rendering shaders.
• Collection of shaders to draw color maps
• ShaderConductor - Tool designed for cross-compiling HLSL to other shading languages.
• The RTX Shader Binding Table Three Ways (2019)
• ShaderTutorials - Shaders For People Who Don't Know How To Shader, a tutorial series for beginners.
• The future of RLSL (2020)
• A Note on Branching Within a Shader (2020)
• Tiny Shading Language
• Slang - Shading language that extends HLSL with new capabilities for building modular, extensible, and high-performance real-time shading systems.
• Shadershop - Interface for programming GPU shaders in the mode of a direct manipulation image editor like Photoshop.
• Circle C++ shaders
• Shading techniques and GLSL snippets
• Rasen - Generate SPIR-V bytecode from an operation graph.
• smol-compute - Tiny library for launching compute shaders on D3D11 and Metal.
• Futureproof - Live editor for GPU shaders, built on Zig, Neovim, and WebGPU. (Web)
• CineShader - Real-time 3D shader visualizer.
• pmfx-shader - Cross platform shader system for HLSL, GLSL, Metal and SPIR-V.
• GLSLX - GLSL type checker, code formatter, and minifier for WebGL. (Web)
• live-glsl - Lightweight GLSL live-coding tool for macOS. (Web)
• grimoire - Cross-platform live-coding tool for creative coding with GLSL shaders.
• How to read shader assembly (2021)
• Lygia - Granular and multi-language shader library designed for performance and flexibility.
• The case of the curiously slow shader (2021)
• Shader School - Introduction to GLSL shaders and graphics programming that runs in your web browser. (HN)
• Shader Coding
• Shader Workshop (2021)
• Compute Shader 101 (2021) (Code) (HN)
• Shader Place - Real-time collaborative GLSL livecode editor.
• Shaders For Game Devs - YouTube
• Monochromatic Portraits with GLSL (2019)
• GIPS - GLSL Image Processing System. Applies filters written in the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL).
• GLTF -> React Three Fiber (Code)
• Pilka - Live-coding tool for creating shader demos, Vulkan powered.
• Sh4derJockey - Tool for shader coding and live performances.
• GLSL Linting for VS Code - Supports linting of GLS (OpenGL Shading Language).
• Shadergarden - Create evolving artistic images with hot-code-reloaded Lisp and GLSL. (Article)
• Skia shaders in Compose Desktop (2021) (HN)
• Nuance - Tool to run your shaders on the gpu. Also a good demo application for wgpu-rs.
• Unified Shader Programming in C++ (2021) (HN)
• Shader playground - Uses VisualShader of Godot.
• Prefix sum on portable compute shaders (2021) (HN)
• The fun of playing with shaders
• glslViewer - Flexible console-base OpenGL Sandbox to display 2D/3D GLSL shaders without the need of an UI.
• GlslCanvas - Simple tool to load GLSL shaders on HTML Canvas using WebGL.
• Frickin' Shaders With Frickin' Laser Beams (2021) (HN)
• GLSL-PathTracer - Physically based path tracer that runs in a GLSL fragment shader.
• GLSL Shading Language Issue Tracker
• A Simple Shader for Point Lights in Fog (2020)
• matcap - GLSL shaders for calculating/rendering Spherical Environment Maps, or "matcaps".
• marching.js - JavaScript library that compiles GLSL ray marchers.
• "Super Imposter" shader: my journey to make a high quality imposter shader
• A Review of Shader Languages (2022) (HN)
• Pure CSS Shaders Art - Shaders art made with pure CSS.
• Neon Playground - Interactive & intuitive way to build shaders without having to write any code. (Tweet)
• A Shader Trick (2022) (HN)
• Functional shading languages
• Shader Park - JavaScript framework for creating real-time 2D and 3D shaders. JS -> Shader. (Web) (HN)
• Wombat - Efficient texture-free GLSL procedural noise library.
• Shaderity - Useful shader toolset.
• Rendering Point Clouds with Compute Shaders
• Visualizing Complex Numbers Using GLSL (2022)
• ShaderGraph - Library for linking together GLSL snippets into stand-alone shaders. It is mainly meant to build complicated shaders 100% programmatically.
• Taichi Voxel Challenge
• MiniShadertoy - Tiny webGL shader playground. (Code)
• Rhea Grass - Geometry-shader based grass for Unity's Universal Render Pipeline.
• Simple WebGL Fragment Shader Editor (Code)
• CrossShader - Tool for cross compiling shaders. Convert between GLSL, HLSL, Metal Shader Language, or older versions of GLSL.
• Shader examples
• Shader translation benchmark (2022)
• Shaders Playground - From "The Book Of Shaders". (Code)
• shame - Shader EDSL for writing render and compute pipelines in rust.
• Shades - Rust EDSL for shading languages.
• Spatula - Create beautiful shader materials in the browser and generate your JavaScript. (Code)
• GLSL Shaders
• GLSL Shaders from Scratch
• Nemutas ｜ Works
• GLSLCanvas4AE - After Effects Plug-in to write GLSL with a format of glslCanvas.