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A series of tricks and techniques I learned doing tiny GLSL demos

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201 points ibobev | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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reactordev ◴[08 Dec 25 21:44 UTC] No.46198064[source]▶
I’m not a fan of the minified glsl that guys like this produce but I do get a chuckle when variable declarations spell out damnit. The frustrations are real.

That aside, i love the work, I just hate having to mentally grok the d and c style variables. As if number of chars minimum is the goal. Number of instructions yes, but we can do better than d and t.

Moonlight is beautiful.

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1. hansvm ◴[09 Dec 25 05:49 UTC] No.46201680[source]▶
> number of chars minimum not the goal

For my tastes this is excessive (especially since the formatting is non-existent), but you do pay a cost for longer variable names. There's only so much you can grok when reading a passage, and long names hinder any higher-level understanding of what that passage actually does, requiring you to resort to carefully thinking about the problem rather than any shortcuts and insights your powerful visual cortex might provide.