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The Book of Shaders

by Patricio Gonzalez Vivo and Jen Lowe

This is a gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex
universe of Fragment Shaders.

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Contents

  * About this book

  * Getting started

      + What is a shader?
      + "Hello world!"
      + Uniforms
      + Running your shader
  * Algorithmic drawing

      + Shaping functions
      + Colors
      + Shapes
      + Matrices
      + Patterns
  * Generative designs

      + Random
      + Noise
      + Cellular noise
      + Fractional brownian motion
      + Fractals
  * Image processing

      + Textures
      + Image operations
      + Kernel convolutions
      + Filters
      + Others effects
  * Simulation

      + Pingpong
      + Conway
      + Ripples
      + Water color
      + Reaction diffusion
  * 3D graphics

      + Lights
      + Normal-maps
      + Bump-maps
      + Ray marching
      + Environmental-maps (spherical and cube)
      + Reflect and refract
  * Appendix: Other ways to use this book

      + How can I navigate this book offline?
      + How to run the examples on a Raspberry Pi?
      + How to print this book?
      + How can I collaborate?
      + An introduction for those coming from JS by Nicolas Barradeau
  * Examples Gallery

  * Glossary

About the Authors

Patricio Gonzalez Vivo (1982, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a New York
based artist and developer. He explores interstitial spaces between
organic and synthetic, analog and digital, individual and collective.
In his work he uses code as an expressive language with the intention
of developing a better together.

Patricio studied and practiced psychotherapy and expressive art
therapy. He holds an MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons The New
School, where he now teaches. Currently he works as a Graphic
Engineer at Mapzen making openSource mapping tools.

WebSite - Twitter - GitHub - Vimeo - Flickr

Jen Lowe is an independent data scientist and data communicator at
Datatelling where she brings together people + numbers + words. She
teaches in SVA's Design for Social Innovation program, cofounded the
School for Poetic Computation, taught Math for Artists at NYU ITP,
researched at the Spatial Information Design Lab at Columbia
University, and contributed ideas at the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy. She's spoken at SXSW and Eyeo. Her
work has been covered by The New York Times and Fast Company. Her
research, writing, and speaking explore the promises and implications
of data and technology in society. She has a B.S. in Applied Math and
a Master's in Information Science. Often oppositional, she's always
on the side of love.

WebSite - Twitter - GitHub

Acknowledgements

Thanks Scott Murray for the inspiration and advice.

Thanks Kenichi Yoneda (Kynd), Nicolas Barradeau, Karim Naaji for
contributing with support, good ideas and code.

Thanks Kenichi Yoneda (Kynd) and Sawako for the Japanese translation
(Ri Ben Yu Yi )

Thanks Tong Li and Yi Zhang for the Chinese translation (Zhong Wen Ban )

Thanks Jae Hyun Yoo and June Kim for the Korean translation (hangugeo)

Thanks Nahuel Coppero (Necsoft) for the Spanish translation (espanol)

Thanks Raphaela Protasio and Lucas Mendonca for the Portuguese
translation (portugues)

Thanks Nicolas Barradeau and Karim Naaji for the French translation
(francais)

Thanks Andrea Rovescalli for the Italian translation (italiano)

Thanks Michael Tischer for the German translation (deutsch)

Thanks Sergey Karchevsky for the Russian translation (russian)

Thanks Andy Stanton for fixing and improving the pdf/epub export
pipeline

Thanks to everyone who has believed in this project and contributed
with fixes or donations.

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Copyright 2015 Patricio Gonzalez Vivo