Experiments in procedural dappled light shaders

One of my personal philosophies is that one’s personal site should feel like a digital home. As someone who stops to enjoy the light a lot, I felt it was very important that my digital home have nice lighting too.

One of my personal philosophies is that one’s personal site should feel like a digital home. As someone who stops to enjoy the light a lot, I felt it was very important that my digital home have nice lighting too. For a long time, I had this dappled light effect on my website that I made and open-sourced. At some point though, I noticed that if I zoomed in any amount on Chrome, there was a CSS compositing bug which would render a strange black gradient over the whole site. I tried for a few hours to resolve it but found no success and so decided to rip it out entirely. This left my site…

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