Intro to Shaders – JavaScript & p5.js Course for Beginners
This beginner's course, developed by Pat Verra, introduces graphics programming fundamentals using p5.js, teaching vertex and fragment shaders, and culminating in creating an animated fractal heart effect, while explaining the efficiency of shaders on GPUs compared to CPUs.
MAIN POINTS FROM TRANSCRIPT
- Course teaches graphics programming fundamentals with no prior experience needed.
- Learn vertex and fragment shaders, domain repetition, and shaping functions.
- Create an animated fractal heart effect using p5.js.
- Understand GPU efficiency through shader programming.
TAKEAWAYS
- Shaders run on GPUs, enabling faster processing by handling tasks in parallel.
- GLSL is the language used for writing shader code, transferable across frameworks.
- p5.js and p5 strands library facilitate shader coding in JavaScript.
- Setup code in p5.js involves setting WebGL mode, loading GLSL files, and sending data to GPU.