tuansydau/shader-work

A collection of shaders that I've written in GLSL

shader-work

A collection of GLSL shaders that I've written since December 6th, 2023.

What

Shaders are programs that run on GPUs and render graphics either in real-time or with some preprocessing. Shaders can create graphics by themselves, or work with existing objects to add effects like shadows/realistic lighting, etc. My focus is currently on Fragment shaders, which work as standalone graphics most of the time, but I aim to be able to write complex lighting and water graphics.

Why

I have always wanted to do game development visuals but would likely get decimated in the industry. I'll self-study graphics development until I'm sure that I'll survive.

How to understand and use this repo

GLSL files don't have a specific filetype, but GLSL's creators have decided on a file extension format depending on the type of shader as follows:

• .vert - a vertex shader
• .tesc - a tessellation control shader
• .tese - a tessellation evaluation shader
• .geom - a geometry shader
• .frag - a fragment shader
• .comp - a compute shader

You can see each file's render in higher resolution and framerates than the demos below by copying and pasting the GLSL file contents into a ShaderToy environment (you can do it in your browser!).

Demos

Below are video demos of the shaders that I have worked on. They are lower-quality videos, and I highly recommend that you go and compile one of these in ShaderToy if you like it. It won't even take a minute!

1. Diamond Visualizer

diamondVisualizer.webm

2. Starfield

starfield.webm