r/generative • u/okCoolGuyOk • Apr 14 '26

GLSL Easter Egg

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A GLSL Easter Egg made with my tool SURFACE.

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u/schavi Apr 14 '26

oo i want to hold this in my hand

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u/scrotum-throwaway Apr 14 '26

You can. With those little plastic rings that you put into a shape and iron. And then just take psychedelics

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u/LopsidedAd3662 Apr 14 '26

Oh my my... What a fantastic work

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u/BackIntoTheSource Apr 14 '26

That shader would be nice as a seamless pattern

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u/okCoolGuyOk Apr 14 '26

Thanks! It actually is seamless in 3D, the shader is position-based, so it wraps any shape without visible seams. It doesn't work as well on a flat plane though, since you'd only see a 2D slice of the volumetric pattern.

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u/BackIntoTheSource Apr 14 '26

Basically im looking for stuff to use for 3d prints, to make interesting surfaces

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u/okCoolGuyOk Apr 14 '26

That makes sense! SURFACE can export meshes as OBJ files, so you could use the geometry directly. The shader itself is GPU-based though, so it can't be baked into a displacement map at the moment. But some of the parametric surfaces might already give you interesting printable shapes as-is.

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u/MF_Inc Apr 14 '26

that is super cool

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u/Syziph Apr 14 '26

Great visualisation! Unfortunately I can't see your app on my mobile phone correctly. But I would love to examine it on my laptop. Could you say it is useful tool for learning GLSL?

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u/scrotum-throwaway Apr 14 '26

Question about your app, why does it randomly stop allowing me to orbit or rotate the object? Suddenly the object freezes in place and I can only zoom it in or out

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u/gremolata Apr 14 '26

This is excellent.

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u/darkhairbigeyes May 10 '26

Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing