Thomas Hooper

Inside, the new Outside! For the @revision_party animated gif competition (better video quality over at instagram.com/p/CNQCz5YH9PH/)

@XorDev Something I’ve done before is automatically adding uniforms for the things you’re modifying, so you don’t have to recompile as they change

@tdhooper Yeah, I'll look for optimizations and perhaps a manual compile mode

Introducing FragCoord: My ultimate shader editing tool!

@chiu_hans I’ve another method here shadertoy.com/view/wslyzH

Implemented a robust 3D transformation interpolation in Blender Geometry Nodes. I have to say I have no idea about Lie algebra, but Gemini 3 clearly nailed it. 🤯 (Do we have other way to achieve this?) #b3d #geometrynodes #math

@manujarvinen @MatthewArcus Go for it :)

@MatthewArcus @tdhooper Hi @tdhooper and @MatthewArcus - I got your Möbius Warp code working for a Godot game engine shader. Would you allow me to use the code for the upcoming Assembly Summer '25 Demo Competition in my Demo? I shall credit you straight in the Demo itself, of course. What do you think?

Inside, the new Outside! For the @revision_party animated gif competition (better video quality over at instagram.com/p/CNQCz5YH9PH/)

Exploring the fractal reef

The atomic structure of fractals

@marcinignac Should be working now

@tdhooper Hmm. No luck in Safari and Chrome on M1

One of the tedious aspects of modeling SDFs with raw shader code is adjusting the position of objects, so I'm adding transform gizmos into my tool They write changes directly to the shader on disk, so I don't need an external object hierarchy tdhooper.github.io/offline-shader…

@marcinignac Indeed, on that front thank you for pex-context, I just switched this project to it from regl and it’s been very nice to work with

@tdhooper Well... choose you battles wisely they say. Right decision.

@marcinignac I cheated and used threejs ;) threejs.org/examples/misc_…

@tdhooper Any battle stories about how did you go about gizmo programming? I'm resisting to add it to our toolkit but I can do that only for so long..

@marcinignac I need to get my hands on a mac to test apparently this one works though tdhooper.github.io/offline-shader…

@00jknight Haha, what a coincidence indeed! Yeah, I’m using uniforms for every gizmo, so there is no recompilation at all, even when saving changes to the shader, I disable live-reload. Essential as some of my shaders take seconds to compile 😬

@tdhooper Also, odd that you both have the same last name, what a co-incidence. (I made a 2d visual SDF editor for Godot for a project; I'd notice the lag when moving objects around as the shader re-compiled) also of note: windows webGL shader compilation is far slower than mac webgl

@iquilezles Really nice :) Here's a similar technique that snaps to an icosahedron vertex shadertoy.com/view/fdXcDl

So I've been notified that my role is at risk. Would anybody like to hire a me. I've spent the last 7 years as chief software architect, which realistically meant doing every job from infrastructure to product. I am interested in everything, and curious to try new things.

@MachinaFractal Thanks!! Means a lot, your work is fantastic 👌would be a pleasure to collaborate some day

@tdhooper Hell yeah. It's not the right moment but will keep this in mind, big fan of you on shadertoy :)

With the sudden closure of @jumpshipstudio, I'm looking for a new role I'm looking for anywhere I can make beautiful things with code, my ideal role would be a mix of graphics programming, technical art, and gameplay programming (or anything else interactive)

@MachinaFractal Of course :)

@tdhooper Path tracing as well ?

At Jumpship I was most notibly behind all things 'sediment', you can read a bit about it here store.steampowered.com/news/app/16714….

If you're reading this you're probably familiar with my shaders, you can take a closer look on instagram instagram.com/tdhpr or shadertoy shadertoy.com/user/tdhooper/…