STARTS PRIZE’18 – Honorary Mention
Shadertoy.com enables artists, programmers, technical artists, and professors from all over the world to create visuals with code, and then share their work while learning from other creators.
The website provides a rich code editor, a powerful system of multi-pass rendering, a system to generate sound from code, virtual reality rendering, and a rich set of inputs to use in pieces such as textures, music, and video. Once a piece is submitted, both the animations and the code behind it are available for everybody in the community to explore, tweak, and learn from. The community side of the website allows for people to discover, rate, and discuss the work, making it a great place for learning.
Shadertoy was created by Pol Jeremias Vila and Iñigo Quilez. It has been online since February 2013, and more than 85,000 pieces have been submitted by more than 50,000 creators. The contributors come from different backgrounds, such as the arts, game development, academia, and the film industry and represent over 100 different countries. And the best part is that Shadertoy is completely free.
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