shadergarden VS watchout

Hey HN,

Isaac Clayton again[0]! This summer I worked as an intern at tonari[1] where I developed algorithms for real-time 3D scene construction on the GPU. As a part of my research, I developed a library / tool for prototyping shader-based graphical pipelines on the GPU.

Shadergarden[2] uses GLSL[3] for shaders, but introduces a lisp-like configuration language[4] for chaining shaders (and other transformations) into directed acyclic graphical pipelines.

Hope you enjoy the write up, have a nice day!

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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25347140 / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26212491

[1]: https://tonari.no

[2]: https://github.com/tonarino/shadergarden

[3]: https://thebookofshaders.com/

[4]: https://github.com/tonarino/shadergarden/blob/master/LISP.md (When all you have is a compiler, everything's a DSL)

I'm thrilled to share a project I've been working on over this summer. Shadergraph allows you to chain shaders together to create live-reloadable graphical pipelines. For lack of a better comparison, it's like a powerful version of Shadertoy that runs locally. If you'd like an introductory dive, I've written a blog post that walks through a couple of examples; if you'd like to give the source code a peek, it's freely available on GitHub.