(WIP)The Beautiful World of Mathematics - My first shader
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Introduction
A little bit of my past…
In my teenage years, I was into drawing, sketching, more specifically digital drawing and animation. But due to how life transpired and me getting into programming and CS, I didn’t have time to consistently practice my hobby of drawing. I’d known about shadertoy, mandelbrot for a long time, how noise can be used to generate patterns that you see in real life. Also, I am immensely fascinated by the Universe and astronomy.
Becoming the Artist With Mathematics and Programming
This is my entry into the world of shader programming. I created this ‘sun like’ shader for my work in progress N-body simulator. So, I first started by writing a ‘software’ shader; which is just some C code which writes an image file to the disk. Why did I do this? Just because I felt like I would learn all the bits and pieces by doing it on the CPU first, which might look odd to some of you.
Anyway, this article is about how I created this shader. As we go through the article, I’ll link some wonderful resources which you can read to explore more.
First Some Math
Tis art
(To be continued…)