Very sad that none of the fragment shader experts have written a book focusing on generative art. The Book of Shaders is very basic.
How to create something like this (including sound!) while thinking on a per color x,y basis is mind boggling.
How to create something like this (including sound!) while thinking on a per color x,y basis is mind boggling.
A good example is the Revision 2021 semi-finals[1]. The entire video is worth watching, but I especially recommend watching the last half of evvvil-vs-flopine (from about 43:00); the last few minutes (from ~56:00) fundamentally changed my understanding of what is possible in a fragment shader. Ray marching into a hand crafted signed distance field is such a bizarre way of thinking about a scene.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBdRfFwuP40
edit: corrected 'last few minutes' time
It's not printed on dead trees but there's easily enough covered there for a book or three.
5 hour video of its creation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfe5UQ-1L9Q
Utterly amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDo9LvfoVE is a good first watch.