Introduction to Shaders and Practical Applications – Gray Area Festival 2024Workshop

Introduction to Shaders and Practical Applications – Gray Area Festival 2024Workshop

Accessibility Update:
Please note that this workshop will be held in the upstairs Gray Area classroom, which is not ADA accessible. We apologize for any inconvenience and encourage those impacted to contact us for assistance. Thank you for your understanding.

In this workshop, you will learn how to code shaders by creating a visual composition with GPU code and a little bit of math. This is an ideal way to create music visualizers, or any interactive abstract graphics of the sort. We will briefly go over how to use the shaders we create in a variety of other real-time engines like Unity, p5.js & touch designer. You will learn about where the shader exists in the graphics pipeline, the basics of how the language works, and how to quickly iterate on writing your shader using livecoding tools (code that compiles on the fly). You will also be given a plethora of tools to build upon what you learn, so you can keep learning and practicing beyond this workshop.

This workshop is part of the  Gray Area Festival 2024.

Marking Gray Area Festival’s 10th anniversary, Gray Area 10 continues our annual survey of culture through the lens of creative practice, featuring a conference, performances, and workshops.