Shaders — Aperveil

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Mesh Gradient

A continuously drifting multi-point gradient with dithering to kill 8-bit banding. The cheapest background in the catalog.

Dot Grid

A dot matrix that breathes, with a ripple spreading from the cursor. Antialiasing scales with pixel size, so it stays equally crisp at every device pixel ratio.

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Aurora Drift

Slow-drifting light curtains with a hard lower edge and a long upward fade. The pointer acts as wind.

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Liquid Chrome

A restrained chrome surface driven by three analytic stream modes, exact surface derivatives, and a quiet studio reflection rig.

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Caustics

The web of light a water surface casts below it. Built by folding the field into itself; the pointer sends rings through it.

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Plasma Field

Organic plasma currents with a smooth, non-repeating flow. The cursor softly illuminates nearby ridges without twisting the field.

Grain Gradient

A directional editorial colour field under fine film grain that evolves in place without drifting across the canvas.

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Line Waves

A field of flowing lines that part around the cursor. Line thickness is measured in pixels, so it stays equally fine at any device pixel ratio.

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Metaballs

Blobs that merge as they meet, with the cursor as one of them. Colours blend where the fields overlap instead of one winning.

Neuro Noise

Branching filaments that stick to the cursor and spring back once it leaves. Rotating the field between folds is what turns a grid of sines into a network.

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Halftone

A drifting field printed as dots on a screen rotated 25 degrees. Each dot carries one sampled tone, the way a real halftone cell does.

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God Rays

Volumetric light shafts radiating from the cursor. The beams are angular noise sampled in polar space — a shaft is just a shadow that does not change along its length.

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Spiral

Logarithmic arms winding out of the cursor. A log spiral is a straight line in (log r, angle) space, so the whole pattern is one sine with no loop.

Smoke Ring

A fixed torus of rolling smoke for hero marks and halos, with local cursor shear instead of cursor-following motion.

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Iridescent Foil

Soft holographic colour bands over an untextured, single-colour base. No embossed folds or brushed-metal highlights.

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Glass Flutes

A wall of fluted glass with a scene behind it. The refraction uses a real half-cylinder normal, so the image stretches at the flute edges and passes untouched down each centre.

Dither

A smooth field quantised to five levels through a computed 4x4 Bayer matrix. Fixed cell size in device pixels, so the texture never scales with the canvas.

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Hex Tiles

Matte ceramic hexagons with a soft glow through the gaps near the cursor. Beveled faces keep their colors while fine edges catch the light.

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Iso Grid

An isometric height field with separately lit top and side faces. Procedural elevation recedes into depth while the pointer lifts a local ridge through the terrain.

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Chromatic Drift

One field sampled three times, once per channel, with the offsets growing away from the cursor the way a lens fringes toward its edges.

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Grid Horizon

A perspective floor running to a horizon under a slitted sun. The floor is a real projection, so the lines crowd correctly toward the vanishing point.

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Rising Cubes

An isometric field of solid blocks moving through a deliberate rise, hold, and fall cycle. A directional phase wave travels across the grid while the pointer lifts nearby cubes.

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Starfield

A slow journey through fine stars and a colored nebula volume, with dark dust lanes and depth-dependent parallax. Star Flight keeps the original clear view.

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Topo Lines

A domain-warped ridged terrain rendered as a professional contour study. Stable minor and index lines follow the elevation while the pointer reshapes the land itself.

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Ocean Swell

A calm perspective ocean with directional swells, a distant horizon and soft sky reflections. Always moving, never cursor-driven.

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Kaleidoscope

One wedge of a simple field, mirrored around a centre. The mirror is the point: folding without it leaves a seam at every segment boundary.

Silk Bands

Fine satin weave, soft irregular folds and light that follows the fibers.

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Cursor Comet

A luminous comet that follows your actual cursor path, with a curved, tapering trail and small fading sparks.

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Fractal Glass

Fine reeded glass fragments vivid, slowly flowing colour fields against a dark ground.

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Petal Glass

A frosted petal mark lit from within. Frosting jitters the sample position before shading rather than blurring after — a single pass has no neighbours to blur with.

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Glass Facets

Sculptural glass with five polyhedral cuts, softly rounded edges and two-interface refraction. Shape, stretch and position the solid against a studio gradient.

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Flip Tiles

A split-flap board: a wave rolls across the grid and each tile turns on its horizontal axis. The turn is a real projection — the edge swinging toward you grows, which is the cue that sells the rotation.

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Brushed Titanium

Rigid satin metal with directional microfacet reflections and stable linear or radial machining.

Thin-Film Lab

A smooth coated surface with spectrally integrated, angle-dependent thin-film reflectance.

Diffraction Archive

Localized spectral reflection governed by groove pitch and light direction on a quiet machined surface.

Velvet Atelier

Deep velvet folds with soft pile sheen, filtered fiber detail and restrained studio lighting.

Glazed Porcelain

Sculpted porcelain with a matte ceramic body beneath a separate soft-reflecting dielectric glaze.

Prismatic Caustics

Forward-projected spectral caustics with overlapping light folds, lens and ripple profiles.

Liquid Orb

Crystal, curling pigment, opal and a star-filled Astro interior held inside refractive glass.

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Prism Halo

A luminous organic ring seen through reeded glass whose flutes ripple on their own, with spectral edges and a pointer ripple.

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Glass Medusae

Translucent glass jellyfish pulse and glide through layered depth, their trailing arms responding to local currents.

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Watercolor

A composition of washes lands, spreads and dries on cold-press paper; then the pointer paints, each stroke in its own colour, drying with darkened rims and glazing in real subtractive colour.

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Frost Glass

A plant behind an etched pane: the leaf pressed to the glass is crisp, the ones further back dissolve into shadow, and the wind moves them through focus.

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VHS Tape

A home video played back through a real VHS signal chain: soft luma, smeared colour, ringing edges, tape noise, tracking and head-switching.

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Chromatic Eclipse

An off-centre eclipse revealing a softly scattering, chromatic corona behind a quiet dark silhouette.

Chromatic Vapor

Persistent pigment carried by a two-dimensional fluid: sweep to leave wisps that curl, stretch and slowly disappear.

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Polarized Stress

Sculpted color lobes inspired by stress birefringence, with a local pressure field and slow optical drift.

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Magnetic Ink

A continuous obsidian liquid surface with field-shaped crests and broad studio reflections, inspired by ferrofluid.

Spectral Ribbons

Flowing liquid-glass ribbons with rounded thickness, refracted studio colors and gently yielding cursor interaction.

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Moiré Flow

Two sheer curtains hang in real folds before a window; their threads interfere into moiré bands that follow the folds and sweep across as the pointer shifts your view.

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Cymatic Dust

Persistent grains of pigment that disperse and settle into different Chladni-inspired patterns as your cursor moves across the surface.

Canopy Light

Soft leaf shadows, warm afternoon light and a quiet, local breeze.

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Dew Glass

Misted glass, fine droplets and a wipe that slowly returns to mist.

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Membrane Field

Translucent folded membranes with soft optical thickness and a gently recovering local touch.

Aero Coat

Pigmented coachwork, filtered metallic flakes and a separate clear coat under moving studio light.

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Signal Weave

Luminous packets follow a layered channel weave, gathering through a soft junction before separating again.

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Light Seam

A flight between two cloud decks toward the seam of light on the horizon: every pixel is a ray marched through the deck it looks into, lit by forward scattering from the seam, sunk into its haze with distance, and now and then lit from inside by lightning.

Soap Film

Folded interference sheets inside a bounded sphere, coloured by banded thin-film interference, with a silver rim and a soft window reflection.

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Fiber Optic

A bundle of side-glow fibres behind a real focal plane: light fades along each strand as it is lost, leaves through a bright cut tip, and runs in pulses from source to end, while depth sets each strand's circle of confusion.

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Particle Bloom

A ruffled sheet resolved into the grains that sit on it: the lattice lives in the sheet's own space, so the particles stay stuck to the surface and pack tighter where it turns away.

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Spun Drape

Soft satin folds with restrained micro-weave, directional highlights and slowly travelling fabric motion.

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Chiffon

Dyed sheer fabric curling through moving air on a light ground: pale where a sheet faces you and deep where it turns away, because light crosses it on a longer, slanted path — and the folds flutter at the Strouhal rhythm of cloth in a stream.

Glass Morph

Eight morphing glass sculptures with adjustable rounded edges, traced refraction and studio reflections.

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Pulled Ink

A row of flames that puff, climb and lick the way buoyant fires do, pulled down the frame by an actual line integral, torn into lanes by the nicks in the blade, with the grain sitting on the print.

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Anodized Fold

Metal strips folded over one another under a transparent oxide film, coloured by two-beam interference rather than by pigment: each strip rolls, creases and shows its other face, and the colour walks as the surface turns.

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Dither Morph

Twelve smoothly morphing forms, from geometric solids and elongated rings to organic lobes, lit and printed in ordered Bayer pixels, a 45° halftone or surface-stable dots.

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