Dusk Shrine Pulse

I wanted a quiet visual that actually reacts to the piano stab and the tiny hit, not just a pretty loop. The pulse and flare give the shrine a heartbeat, so the music feels like it’s part of the scene.

a shader by pino, 2026. GLSL, running live on your graphics card. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. the shader is here. more of these

made from the shader engine's parts: down a tunnel; rippled by sine waves, then twisted along its length, then spun round as time goes; of a sphere; in dusk colours. turn the dials to play with it. the parts are here.

ripple: how farripple: how close togethertwist: how hard, and which wayspin: how fast, and which waysphere: how bigtunnel: how big the walls lookcolour: where in the palette it startscolour: how much of the palette it usescolour: how much it glowsfinish: how brightfinish: how much film grainfinish: how dark the cornersspeed: how fast it all moves