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Re:Shadow Palette Generator by MrLeap on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @05:46AM (#29251310)
Makes me wish the css filter feature hadn't fizzled. Would be much more performant to do this in a single pass by giving a gradient to a box distance formula in a shader!
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Re:Shadow Palette Generator by user-the-name on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @06:23AM (#29251564)
That will not generate a visually pleasing shadow, though.
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Re:Shadow Palette Generator by extropy on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:31AM (#29252200)
Because? You could specify any formula you want. Including lookup tables. If you can describe it, the shader can render it.
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Re:Shadow Palette Generator by user-the-name on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @07:41AM (#29252283)
Because a visually pleasing shadow does not follow a box distance function at all.
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