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Learn Zig Series (#181) - Cross-Compiling for ARM Cortex-M What will I learn What a Cortex-M microcontroller actually is, why "bar...

Learn Rust Series (#57) - Feature Flags and Conditional Compilation (cfg) What will I learn You will learn how the #[cfg(...)] attribut...

GLSL Lesson 4: Reshaping Light and Shadow with pow() Previous Lessons Lesson 1 Your First Shader: Painting the Entire Screen One Color ht...

In the first lesson, we learned the simplest thing a fragment shader can do: paint every pixel the same color. In the second lesson, we m...

Lesson: 8 There’s something strangely alive about this kind of shader. Nothing moves, nothing is drawn in the traditional sense, yet the ...

If you filled your screen with completely random values, the result would look like television static. Every pixel would be different fro...

This is the fourth post in the GlSL learning series. Learning GLSL as a Beginner Understanding gl-Position: My First Real Vertex Shader ...

Look at images captured by space telescopes. Galaxies are filled with glowing clouds of gas and dust. Some regions appear bright blue. Ot...

When you look into the night sky, the stars seem randomly scattered. Some are bright. Some are barely visible. Some appear grouped togeth...

Look at the sky on a clear day. Clouds rarely have sharp edges. They slowly grow, merge together, drift across the horizon, and disappear...

Think about standing beside a lake on a sunny day. The water is not one solid color. Bright highlights appear where sunlight hits the wav...

Water is always moving. Sometimes it forms gentle ripples across a lake. Sometimes it crashes into waves. Sometimes it reflects the sky s...

Smoke behaves very differently from fire. Fire is energetic. Smoke drifts slowly. It spreads outward. It fades into the air. Instead of s...

Look at the cross section of a tree trunk. You'll notice a series of rings spreading outward from the center. These rings aren't perfectl...

Walk through an old building made from marble and you'll notice something interesting. No two pieces look exactly alike. Every slab conta...

Imagine looking at your reflection in perfectly still water. Everything appears smooth. Now throw a pebble into the water. The reflection...

If you filled your screen with completely random values, the result would look like television static. Every pixel would be different fro...

Look closely at the world around you. Clouds are never identical. Mountains all have different shapes. Stone, wood, sand, and water all c...

Look closely at the world around you. Clouds are never identical. Mountains all have different shapes. Stone, wood, sand, and water all c...

Look closely at the world around you. Clouds are never identical. Mountains all have different shapes. Stone, wood, sand, and water all c...

By themselves, translation, rotation, and scaling are useful. Together, they become incredibly powerful. Almost every animated shader, ga...

If you've ever zoomed into a map, resized an image, or watched a button grow when you hover over it, you've seen scaling in action. Scali...

Rotation is one of the most powerful transformations in shader programming. Spinning loading icons. Rotating radar displays. Clock hands....

By themselves, translation, rotation, and scaling are useful. Together, they become incredibly powerful. Almost every animated shader, ga...

If you've ever zoomed into a map, resized an image, or watched a button grow when you hover over it, you've seen scaling in action. Scali...

Rotation is one of the most powerful transformations in shader programming. Spinning loading icons. Rotating radar displays. Clock hands....

One of the first mistakes beginners make is trying to move a shape directly. In reality, that's not what happens. The shape never moves. ...

Drawing one shape is useful. Drawing hundreds of shapes automatically is where procedural graphics become truly exciting. Many background...

Stars appear everywhere in digital graphics. Game collectibles. Achievement badges. Navigation icons. Holiday decorations. Particle effec...

Stars appear everywhere in digital graphics. Game collectibles. Achievement badges. Navigation icons. Holiday decorations. Particle effec...