Writing Shaders Feels Like Black Holes

Interacting Black Holes by Hamid Nadery Yeganeh The above picture is a converted version of a 2000 × 1200 image. For m = 1, 2, 3, ..., 1200 and n = 1, 2, 3, ...,1200, the color of the pixel of the row n and the column m is rgb (F(H₀(m−1000/500, 601−n/500)), F(H₁(m−1000/500, 601−n/500)), F(H₂(m−1000/500, 601−n/500))), where F(x) = [255e^(−e^1000|x|^(−e^(1000x−1)))]

A surreal visualization shows two black holes spiraling together in a purple cosmic scene, with dense mathematical formulas covering the bottom. The joke is that writing shaders feels impossibly complicated and visually chaotic, like trying to understand the equations behind an interacting black-hole simulation.

• @gentoomemes / 18600 2025-09-12