Unity little toy shaders

Posted on 1 Oct 2020 - 19:00
Here’s a small but growing collection of little Unity toys with more or less typical mathematical tricks implemented in a fragment shader. What’s impressive is, as often happens in maths, the simplicity of most formulas when implemented. I’ve always found coding things that have a visual output a really good way of understanding maths. I adapted these old snippets I made in Processing to ShaderLab/CG. I intentionally shared them in their most basic form to leave room to creativity.

Fractal Totem

Posted on 1 Oct 2017 - 18:46
Fractals. One can only admire their intrinsic beauty for they represent one of the most popular ways to turn math into pleasing visuals. These mathematical creatures make many intriguing, mind blowing appearances in nature. There are several kinds of fractals that are characterized by the method used to generate them and one of the most notorious is without doubt the Julia Mandelbrot Set (find a Unity/shader implementation here but it is far from being the only interesting example;

Delayed code execution with Unity's coroutines

Posted on 1 Feb 2017 - 18:10
Sometimes a chunk of code must be executed one or more frames ahead, sometimes because it’s just convenient to do so, other times because your code simply wouldn’t work otherwise. Mind that if you are in this situation, you should first ask yourself why. In fact, having to delay your code of one or more frames can be a symptom of engineering mistakes. But it may not depend on you. I had these situations in the past and the cause were most of the times external libraries or code from someone who left the company.

Research: mapping physical objects to digital functions: a tangible interface for Querying and Navigating a Multimedia Database

Posted on 16 May 2011 - 12:10
Abstract In this work we propose a set of guidelines for tangible interfaces (TUI) for mapping physical objects and digital functions. These guidelines emphasize an aspect that has been only partly analyzed so far in TUI research: the role of the object shape as a means for suggesting how to manipulate the artifacts. The peculiarity of the proposal - general enough to be used for different application domains - is the mapping to discrete and continuous digital functions