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[Impmaster]

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Ms2SD1

Do you guys look at this and think, wow, this code is genius or do you think holy shit i dont understand this at all?

[Layl]

All I see is a SSL certificate related problem with loading the site.

[darklight]

I see a nice slideshow, but I've seen this before and it looks A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.  I understand almost nothing, and yet I need to implement something like this in my XNA game somehow.

[Impmaster]

Is this code comprehensible to anyone who knows how to make shaders, or is it just genius, was my real question.

[Boreal]

In the real world the bulk of this shader would be split between the tessellation and fragment shaders, not done as one big raycasting fragment shader.

It's pretty simple when you break it down, actually.  One chunk for handling the waves through a hybrid of a Fourier series and Perlin noise, and another chunk for evaluating color through Fresnel.  It says it does subsurface scattering in the description but I can't find any evidence of that in the source.

Crashes my video driver after a minute or so on top of that.

[Quarry]

Shader programmers, demoscene guys and assembly hackers are the only real wizards

[Sik]

And when you put them together... (I was going to link to the video in the description too but it seems it was taken down =/)

Disclaimer: I'm in the same demogroup as the guy who made that

[Polly]

Is this code comprehensible to anyone who knows how to make shaders, or is it just genius, was my real question.

It's pretty straight-forward to be honest. But as mentioned, in the real world you wouldn't do all this in the fragment shader .. that's just the ( fun ) limitation that Shadertoy imposes