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patriciogonzalezvivo
thebookofshaders
GLSL2015–2023
patriciogonzalezvivo / thebookofshaders

thebookofshaders

Step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
7.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-03-17 03:16:17 UTC to 2023-06-01 02:19:57 UTC.

012015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I see very intriguing list of contents, but the links lead only up to "Fractional brownian motion". So, basically, 3 incomplete chapters out of 6. And there's a "Subscribe for the news letter" button. The website is dated 2015. So, what's up with the project? Is it essentially abandoned or what? There appear to be 2 month old commits in the repository though. Or is it just being written at an extremely slow rate? I don't get it. Edit: yeah, it appears to be abandoned. https://github.com/patriciogonzalezvivo/thebookofshaders/iss...
In What are shaders?
I remember this from a year or two ago. I found it to be a useful entrypoint into a topic that I thought I'd never understand at all. Understanding the basics of shaders has been helpful for some audio-visual tchotchkes that I have enjoyed building. Hope to learn more, over time. And I'd really love to see more of the chapters that are planned, but unavailable. Is there a changelog that will tell us what parts of the book were updated and when they were updated? edit – it's all on GitHub, which is also helpful given how slow the Book of Shaders website is right now: https://github.com/patriciogonzalezvivo/thebookofshaders
In The Book of Shaders

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