An 'absolutely awesome mistake': Metaballs via Metal compute shaders, circa 2019
dreamwieber · x · 2026-09-23
The author shares an 'absolutely awesome mistake' from their first attempt at rendering Metaballs using Metal compute shaders back in 2019 — an unexpected visual artifact that turned out beautiful.
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