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		flohofwoe on Dec 18, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The XOR Texture (2004) A simplified use case is to generate a checkerboard texture, just compute (x ^ y) and look at bit zero: `color = ((x ^ y) & 1) ? black : white;`

pavlov on Dec 18, 2024 [–]

I wonder if someone has written a GPU shader that can play a game of chess inside a 8x8 checkerboard texture.

flohofwoe on Dec 18, 2024 | [–]

Googling finds a shadertoy that's halfway there ;) (knows about chess rules, but can't play on its own):

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/wstBz4

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