Sylvain LC's Blog
A GitHub blog, usefull to me, hope the same for you.
Here a link to Shadertoy showing my published shaders.
Below my experiments, from most recent to olders.
I don’t publish all my creations and experiments, I only set a shader public when I think it’s presentable and can be inspiring, I think this is what everyone is doing, this avoids to have too much public shaders to browse on Shadertoy.
In general, I also try to gives instructions to have different fun results by a simple modification of a line of code. This is a toy !
The question comes many times : how many time it took to me to make these shaders. I can tell between 10 to 20 hours of cumulated time in general. But again this is very pleasant.
Mysterious Roman dodecahedron by sylvain69780
While visiting the Lugdunum Museum at Lyon (France) I was shocked by a very strange artifact ! It took my a lot of time to find the best approach to create this shape. I was happy to publish it, antique dodecahedrons created the surprise.
Bee Waggle Dance by sylvain69780
I started by trying to replicate the map of my dinner room that has some bee pattern on it, and this ended with this.
Very quickly done, based on a BigWings post about domain repetition. The result is nice ! I spent a long time to watch it, I think the humain brain is wired to catch Eggs.
The ‘Helicoid’ shape is too complicated for me, more than the Archimedian spiral, The distance function is not good enough.
Waiting for two injections by sylvain69780
On this one I played with the 3D fonts and the transparent effect. There is also a may be too serious message. It’s a risk to have to fight against some Anti-vax militants.
Happy New Year using a Scytale ! by sylvain69780
My creation after searching for HELIX functions.
Decorated Christmas Spiral by sylvain69780
After searching for archimedian spiral functions. Fun to see that many comments were about the twisted cylinders wrapped around the spiral, much simplier to get.
Mousable Looper Caterpillar by sylvain69780
After studying IQ’s joint functions based on a set of capped torus, and BigWings 2D shaders technics (smiley face youtube tutorials). I had fun testing the results of diffrents procedural patterns from Shane. I spent time to work on the amination.
After searching for some polyhedron functions in order to compute only 1 rocket.
Walking donuts by sylvain69780
After working on polar repetition again. There is instructions for newbies to change and make variations of the code.
Roundabout symetry by sylvain69780
tuto about polar repetition. I think this transformation is missing the the IQ page about distance functions. But this is mentioned in one of his video tutorial.
Was very happy with this one. I modelled the rocket for the first time with IQ’s SDFs, without even understanding how the ligthing is working. Added a BigWings tutorial starfield background. Tried also a glow effect. Newbies can dare all.
SDF for Moss’s Egg - for comment by sylvain69780
I’am so proud, this stupid function of mine (total newbie) inspired IQ. He updated his page about 2D distance functions after my publishing ! This pushed me to find more distance functions, on spirals, helix … And I found it very fun.