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hey2d
@hey2d Jul 12, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC

GLSL Lesson 4: Reshaping Light and Shadow with pow()

# GLSL Lesson 4: Reshaping Light and Shadow with pow() ## Previous Lessons ### Lesson 1 Your First Shader: Painting the Entire Screen One Color https://ecency.com/@hey2d/glsl-lesson-3-understanding-c…

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hey2d
@hey2d Jul 12, 2026, 3:10 PM UTC

GLSL Lesson 3: Understanding clamp() by Breaking and Fixing Colors

In the first lesson, we learned the simplest thing a fragment shader can do: paint every pixel the same color. In the second lesson, we moved beyond a flat color and started creating gradients. Inste…

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hey2d
@hey2d Jul 12, 2026, 12:06 PM UTC

Gradients: When Color Learns About Position

In the previous lesson, Your First Shader: Painting the Entire Screen One Color, we learned that a shader can fill the entire canvas with a single color by writing values into gl_FragColor. If you mi…

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hey2d
@hey2d Jul 12, 2026, 11:06 AM UTC

Your First Shader: Painting the Entire Screen One Color

So far we have been looking at code and breaking it apart piece by piece. That approach is useful, but there is another way to learn shaders that is often more effective: Change things and see what h…

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hey2d
@hey2d Jul 11, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

The Strange Case of vUv.st: Why GLSL Keeps Swapping Coordinate Names

One of the recurring themes in learning GLSL is encountering pieces of code that seem completely unnecessary. You learn about vectors. You learn about coordinates. You start reading examples from The…

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hey2d
@hey2d Jul 11, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

Lesson 9 — HSB: When Color Stops Being Fixed and Starts Becoming a Space

If gradients were the first time color became a relationship, HSB is where color starts behaving like a coordinate system. This is lesson 9 in the series, and it sits right after gradients — not as a…

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hey2d
@hey2d Jul 11, 2026, 3:40 PM UTC

Gradients, Distance, and Why Shaders Start With a Line

Most people think shaders begin with shapes, or light, or noise. But they don’t. They begin with a line, and what you choose to do with distance along that line. This code, pulled from The Book of Sh…

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hey2d
@hey2d Jul 10, 2026, 8:20 PM UTC

Why Xbox and the Big Gaming Companies Are Actually Terrified

https://img.leopedia.io/DQmU57BX98TAkheZpy3TrD8Lg4PYSHgWQEHT7CFMoJS4n83/Screenshot_2026-07-11_00-45-44.png Here's the strange part. Gaming is booming, revenue is up, more people are playing than ever…

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hey2d
@hey2d Jul 10, 2026, 7:43 PM UTC

Gaming Just Became the Biggest Entertainment Business on Earth

There's a reason gaming keeps grabbing headlines lately: it's not a trend anymore, it's dominance. Year over year, game revenue has been climbing steadily, and the total money generated by games now…

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hey2d
@hey2d Jul 10, 2026, 6:28 PM UTC

The Strange Case of vUv.st: Why GLSL Keeps Swapping Coordinate Names

One of the recurring themes in learning GLSL is encountering pieces of code that seem completely unnecessary. You learn about vectors. You learn about coordinates. You start reading examples from The…

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