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A sprawling grab-bag of 300+ standalone Unity shader and compute-shader examples covering raymarching, fractals, GPU compute tricks, NURBS, post-processing and more. It's aimed at Unity/graphics programmers who want self-contained reference snippets to learn from or lift techniques out of, not a cohesive library or package.
Genuine breadth: 319 independent examples spanning HLSL fragment/vertex/geometry/compute shaders, GLSL, DXR ray tracing and tessellation give a real corpus for learning GPU techniques in a Unity context. Each example is self-contained (one shader plus its matching C# script), so you can lift a single technique without pulling in a dependency chain. Covers niche stuff rarely demonstrated elsewhere: GPU bitonic sort, 3D jump flooding, NURBS curves/surfaces/hair, RTX mesh shaders, image-to-SDF conversion. Licensing is tracked per-file (MIT vs CC BY-NC-SA for ShaderToy ports) instead of one blanket claim, so you actually know what you can reuse.
Most examples target the legacy Built-in Render Pipeline; only a handful cover URP and none target HDRP, so a lot of this is dead weight on a modern Unity project. There's no compilation or runtime verification behind any of it - descriptions are from static source inspection only, and several files carry known-bug comments (fire.shader, normal_map_generator.shader) that were never fixed. A meaningful chunk of the techniques (raymarching scenes, atmospheric scattering, fractal generators) are ShaderToy ports under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0, which rules out commercial use for those specific pieces unless you reimplement them yourself. It's a pile of unrelated snippets with no build system, tests, or versioning - fine for copy-paste learning, not something you can depend on or upgrade.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →