Shadertoy Competition 2017
When11 Jul 1st challenge announcement18 Jul 1st deadline + 2nd announcement 25 Jul 2nd deadline + 3rd announcement 1 Aug 3rd deadline + WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT HowThis competition is based on remote participation, and it is free!Every week we'll announce the subject of a new challenge in this page. Once the announcement is done, you'll have a whole week to create and submit your shader. Submitting a shader is easy, you'll simply have to name your shader appropiately and publish it. For example, [SH17A] MyAmazingShader is a valid shader name for the first challenge. Feel free to publish your shaders any time during the week, we embrace collaboration and will value the original entries appropriately regardless of forked or adapted versions that might come as a result. After each challenge deadline, points will be given to the submitted shader and displayed in this page for tracking purposes. At the same date, the challenge for the new week will be announced. The winner of the competition will be the author who's three shaders accumulate the most points. Glory and honor are expected for the champion, and the main prize!. The second and third competitors will also receive prizes. All prizes are thanks to our sponsor, NVIDIA. Prizes1st Place NVIDIA Quadro P60002nd Place NVIDIA Quadro P5000 3rd Place NVIDIA Quadro P4000 Sponsor
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1st Challenge :: Size Coding!
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Do you remember the epic 2 Tweet competition of early 2015? That was an
impressive show of technical and visual mastery. More than two years later it's time to show the world what's possible in just 280 characters. We are opening this year's Shadertoy competition by asking all the shadertoy coders to make the most impressive 2-tweet shader yet. Show to the world and the other shader makers what you are able to do with at most 280 characters, as counted by the character counter under the code editor (unless you try to be smart and find a bug to exploit, in which case we'll fix it). Feel free to use textures, sound or anything that is available to you in a regular Shdertoy creation. We'll value how impressive the visuals, and how small you get your shader to be. Can you make it one tweet long? If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask us or other users in https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MsjBRD. Tag: "[SH17A] name_of_your_shader" Start date: July 11th, 10:00pm Pacific Time End date: July 18th, 11:59am Pacific Time Compo Results: Due to the massive participation, we've decided to give points to the best 20 shaders. All submitted contributions can be found here: https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=SH17A
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 Mystery Mountain shader by Dave Hoskins, 268 characters long, winner of 2015's 2 Tweet competition. |
2nd Challenge :: A Shader Adventure!
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Now that you have demonstrated your ability to make tiny shaders, it is time to start a new adventure and demonstrate your abilities as a generalist programer.
Anything that makes you think of an adventure is welcome in this challenge: movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, classic adventure games like Maniac Mansion, or if you are brave enough, create your very own adventure! Just to be clear, you can make something interactive (like a scene of a game) or you can make something passive (like a scene of a movie or a book). We'll value performance, visual quality and interactivity. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask us or other users in https ://www.shadertoy.com/view/4djBDW. Tag: "[SH17B] name_of_your_shader" Start date: July 18th, 11:59pm Pacific Time End date: July 25th, 11:59am Pacific Time Compo Results: All submitted contributions can be found here: https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=SH17B
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 Ideas for the second challenge of the Shadertoy Competition. |
3rd Challenge :: The Shader Professor
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Now that you have demonstrated your ability as a programmer making tiny shaders and complicated adventures, it is time for something new!
Shadertoy is a community where we share knowledge about computer graphics. Sharing knowledge is important and it is in our blood, and it is probably in yours if you are a user of Shadertoy. For this challenge we are asking you to make a shader that explains an idea, a paper, a technique or something you know well but others might not. It can be anything, for instance, you just read about the fast fourier transform, global illumination, quaternions, fibonacci numbers, or anything. Find a cool or pretty way to explain it, and make a shader! By the way, these listed here are already done in Shadertoy, but no one says you can't do better! You can pick anything, it can be super simple and instructive for kids, or something super advanced you just read about it in a SIGGRAPH paper. We'll value performance, visual quality and interactivity. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask us or other users in https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dBfRK. Tag : "[SH17C] name_of_your_shader" Start date : July 25th, 11:59pm Pacific Time End date : August 1st, 11:59am Pacific Time Compo Results : All submitted contributions can be found here : https ://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=SH17C
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 Ideas for the third challenge of the Shadertoy Competition. |
About Shadertoy
Shadertoy is a web tool that allows developers all over the globe push pixels from code to screen using WebGL. It is free for everybody and it is accessible via www.shadertoy.com.
In less that two years, its users have created thousands of fragments shaders that explore a wide variety of real time graphics algorithms such as raymarching, procedural texturing, modeling and animation, fractal geometry, image compression, volumetric rendering or motion blur.
Shadertoy is also a social platform, a place for professionals and students alike to learn and teach about visuals, interactions, reactivity, modeling, GPU internals and shading.