Neon Gyroid Drift

I wanted something that feels like a living cloud, pulsing and swirling without looking like a cheap demo. The gyroid lattice gives it structure, the neon palette makes it pop, and the slow drift lets you lose yourself in the motion.

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: a glowing cloud in 3D; breathing, then stirred into turbulence, then drifting forward; of a gyroid, with waves half one, half the other; in dusk colours. turn the dials to play with it. the parts are here.

breathe: how muchbreathe: how much the swell travels outwardturbulence: how big the first swirlturbulence: how many layersturbulence: how harddrift: how fastgyroid: how finegyroid: how thick its wallswaves: how highwaves: how long the wavescloud: how far off you arecloud: how many steps through itcloud: how thick the light iscolour: 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