// Glitch: now and then the signal slips. Every couple of seconds a short // burst tears a few horizontal bands sideways and pulls their red and blue // apart; the bands are sized in pixels and the burst eases in and out over // a fraction of a second, so it reads as one event rather than a flicker, // and it looks the same at 60 or 144 Hz because every step is keyed to // iTime, not to frames. Between bursts the page is left exactly as it is. // A torn band's brightness dips in linear light. It is a Shadertoy file: // pardes puts its prefix before it. const float PERIOD = 2.4; // seconds between bursts, on average const float BURST = 0.28; // seconds a burst lasts const float STEP_HZ = 24.0; // how often a burst re-tears const float SHIFT_PX = 14.0; const float SPLIT_PX = 2.5; const float DIP = 0.12; float hash(vec2 p) { vec3 q = fract(vec3(p.xyx) * 0.1031); q += dot(q, q.yzx + 33.33); return fract((q.x + q.y) * q.z); } vec3 toLinear(vec3 c) { return mix(pow((c + 0.055) / 1.055, vec3(2.4)), c / 12.92, lessThanEqual(c, vec3(0.04045))); } vec3 toSrgb(vec3 c) { c = max(c, vec3(0.0)); return mix(1.055 * pow(c, vec3(1.0 / 2.4)) - 0.055, c * 12.92, lessThanEqual(c, vec3(0.0031308))); } void mainImage(out vec4 fragColor, in vec2 fragCoord) { vec2 size = iResolution.xy; vec2 uv = fragCoord / size; // Which burst window this is, when in it the burst starts, and how far // into the burst we are: 0 outside one. float window = floor(iTime / PERIOD); float start = window * PERIOD + hash(vec2(window, 7.0)) * (PERIOD - BURST); float t = (iTime - start) / BURST; float live = step(0.0, t) * step(t, 1.0); float envelope = live * sin(3.14159265 * clamp(t, 0.0, 1.0)); if (envelope <= 0.0) { fragColor = texture(iChannel0, uv); return; } // Bands of 6 to 40 px, re-cut at STEP_HZ during the burst; about one // band in four tears. float tick = floor(iTime * STEP_HZ); float band_px = mix(6.0, 40.0, hash(vec2(tick, 3.0))); float band = floor(fragCoord.y / band_px); float roll = hash(vec2(band, tick)); float tear = smoothstep(0.72, 0.9, roll) * envelope; float shift = (hash(vec2(tick, band + 11.0)) - 0.5) * 2.0 * SHIFT_PX * tear; vec2 at = vec2(fragCoord.x + shift, fragCoord.y); vec2 split = vec2(SPLIT_PX * tear, 0.0); vec4 center = texture(iChannel0, at / size); vec3 col = vec3(texture(iChannel0, (at + split) / size).r, center.g, texture(iChannel0, (at - split) / size).b); col = toSrgb(toLinear(col) * (1.0 - DIP * tear)); fragColor = vec4(col, center.a); }