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15 Years of Shader Minification
How do demosceners create complex computer animations in just a few kilobytes? One of our secret weapons is Shader Minifier, a tool that minifies GLSL code. Over the years, it has evolved to pack more data into tiny executables, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. In this blog post, we'll go through its evolution.
XO by Nuance (4kB)In 2010, I noticed a trend in the demoscene: creators were producing impressive 4k intros, but the process was incredibly manual and tedious. My goal was to automate the most boring tasks: removing unnecessary spaces and comments, and renaming variables to a single letter. In case you wonder about the size regression in version 1.0.5: at that time, we lacked proper tests for compression, so it went unnoticed (it was something related to renaming heuristics).
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