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Life & fun · December 13, 2015

Flat Surface Shader

Lighting simulator

Flat Surface Shader launched on December 13, 2015 with 3 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

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What it does

Simple, lightweight Flat Surface Shader for rendering lit triangles.

Admit it, 3D is cool. But, you know what's cooler? 2D. I love WebGL, but unfortunately it doesn't work everywhere. This lighting simulation can be configured to use either the 2D context of a canvas element or an array of SVG polygons to draw the triangles. It also utilises native Float32Arrays to store numerical data for highly optimised calculations. This is a collaborative effort between Matthew Wagerfield and Tobias van Schneider – a couple of pandas trying to make the web a more magicalfrom matthew.wagerfield.com

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