Shadertoy
Shadertoy is a website that allows graphics programmers, technical artists, professors and hobbyists from all over the globe to push pixels from code to the screen. Shadertoy users can can build prototypes, demos, experiments, teaching material or art. The website provides a text editor, a powerful system of multi pass rendering, gpu sound generation capabilities, VR rendering, and a rich set of inputs like textures, sound and video.
Since 2013, Shadertoy has grown significantly and today it hosts more than 45K public contributions and it has tens of thousands of users from all over the world.
Awards
- Ars Electronica STARTS Prize 2018. Honorary Mention https://starts-prize.aec.at/en/shadertoy/
Pol Jeremias Vila
Computer Graphics Leadership
Pol Jeremias Vila is a computer graphics engineer. He is currently the Director of Real-Time Production Tooling at Netflix helping to create the future of filmmaking tools for animated films. Previously, he led the development of projects such as Hydra (part of USD) and Storm at Pixar Animation Studios. Additionally, he is a co-founder of Beautypi LLC, creators of Shadertoy.com and Memix.app (acquired by Mmhmm Inc).