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The computer can make things beyond your imagination... I have always made things. I became an artist because I was always intrigued by making. It gives me a lot of pleasure and inspiration. I hope to pass this feeling on.-Jennifer Steinkamp

so a few weeks back I went to the Revision demoparty in Germany, during which I entered the shader showdown. you go onstage and code a fragment shader in 25 minutes to music, it's pretty sick. I made a nice little flower, which was pretty much the right scope for my skill level at 25 minutes, and though I didn't advance I am pretty happy to have made it up there...

well, this week I ended up putting a bunch more hours making more flowers! on a quadtree! it took a whole lot of debugging but i'm pretty happy with this raymarching scheme, alternating analytic raycasts when outside the spheres and regular old marching inside the flowers. getting to grips with camera cuts and the like too.

here's the code to run in Bonzomatic, a writeup may follow when i've written up a whole bunch of other things that need writing up x3

1440p capture of my PC demo Shaderland::Swizzle's Journey on Youtube and Newgrounds!

Shaderland is a a puzzle programming game about creating a world of pixels. You learn computer graphics by guiding polygonal creatures through a world made of logic, in pursuit of an occultist hacker.

This demo was created for the Revision demoparty using a custom animation system I built on top of Shaderland, with the music kindly provided by Pumpuli (bandcamp, demozoo).

[Steam] [Pouet] [Demozoo]

Source details and larger version.