Thank you! Maximizing information density was my main goal! :)

Thank you! And yeah it often annoyed me how a lot of shaders tend to have super short, confusing variables names. I understand that most of them likely weren't made with this in mind, but it makes them sooo much harder to dissect. I always like to lean slightly on the side of more verbose.

@@Radian628 bro its always fun to name variables a,b,c those fun stuff yk sometimes i like to name them LCD because the fractals reminds me of it

Omg yes people who write shader code are obsessed with terrible variable names because idk it makes them feel like a hacker or something lmao.

I guess those ppl are also code golf fans, so the shorter the solution, the cooler you are 🤷🏻‍♂️

CGMatter was just trying to be Ian Hubert anyway. and there’s nothing wrong with that either, everyone benefits from the tutorials

​@@ufffd I don't remember Ian Hubert showing bad practices tho

It doesn't randomize, they were randomly chosen as you say. It offsets the fractal's position so the red green and blue channels have different values, similar to chromatic aberration. Length() is the same as measuring how far away a point is from 0, 0, 0.

thanks !@@MysteryPancake I think it makes sense to me now.

Presumably GPUs handle floats faster than ints?

@@MrTomas7777 that seems unlikely

Not necessarily--- usually in programming languages (and in fact in regular math notation) multiplication and division have the same precedence, and are evaluated left-to-right. The same applies to addition and subtraction. GLSL is consistent with this behavior. Scroll down a bit to find the precedence table: registry.khronos.org/OpenGL/specs/gl/GLSLangSpec.4.60.html#preprocessor

@@Radian628 Wow, weird. Didn't know about the left to right precedence. Seems better to avoid that.

@@THE_ONLY_GOD To me having multiplication and division at the same precedence kind of makes sense--- after all, division could be thought of as shorthand for multiplying by a reciprocal. The operators are so similar that it makes sense at least to me to treat their precedence as if they were one and the same. This is even more apparent for addition and subtraction imo--- subtraction is just adding a negative.

@@THE_ONLY_GOD in PEMDAS multiplication and division have the exact same precedence lmao. 1) Parenthesis 2) Exponents (square roots are literally fractionary exponents, meaning that the nth root is the inverse of the nth power, so as you can see they both have the same precedence for a good reason.) 3) Multiplication and Division (Divisions are literally the inverse of a multiplication. Multiplying by 1/x is the same as dividing by x. So, again, as you can see they both have the same precedence for a good reason) 4) Addition and Subtraction (Subtractions are the same as adding negative values, so, again, the same logic applies, subtraction is the inverse of addition, so, once again, they have the same precedence for a good reason)