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Amazing that this was built in HTML/JS/CSS.

Terrifying one might say

Well. It's still certainly easier than writing it from scratch, or through C/C++ and Windows GDI APIs.

One thing I can't figure out is how they implemented shaders in the FX program with the whole thing being rendered on the DOM instead of a canvas.

It's CSS SVG filters. Hilarious :-D