The visualizer video for Moonchild’s “The Other Side” caught me the first time I saw it: calm music, and a scene just as calm, a boat on a night sea under an aurora. I was deep into Shadertoy back then, so I tried to rebuild that scene from techniques I picked up in other shaders. It got somewhere, but never to a state I wanted to publish.

AI-assisted development got me past the point where I had given up, and I could finally finish what I had in mind for that shader. The workflow was fun enough that I went straight on to a second one: an animated version of “imperfection”, an image I once made with generative AI.

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