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Infrastructure for using ShaderToy as a test corpus
Proposal
Create infrastructure that translates (working) shadertoy shaders into rust-gpu (and runs?). This would make it so we have a sort of burndown chart a la https://github.com/uutils/coreutils#gnu-test-suite-compatibility and https://boajs.dev/boa/test262/ and stress test different parts of rust-gpu. Implementing enough to flip a shader from not working to working may be an easier place for contributors to start, and seeing shaders work is neat!
Feasibility
The shadertoy api looks pretty straightforward to implement from the runner side: https://www.shadertoy.com/howto.
I'm not sure how easy the transpiling will be, but there is https://github.com/phaazon/glsl/tree/master/glsl/src/transpiler and spot checks on some shadertoy shaders doesn't look too crazy. We could probably allowlist or denylist.
Implementation
I wanted to open this for comments before starting on an implementation.
I hand ported three shaders from shadertoy...I think automating this is doable for most of the image shaders. It would be cool to have a harness that compares rendering results.
Example, which works with mouse too:
Ported from https://www.shadertoy.com/view/DlGfzh. Code in https://github.com/LegNeato/rust-gpu/tree/fork-shield
Update: I have a WIP differential harness that compares the original shadertoy shader and the converted rust shader's output.