Ray Kiln
Practice

Exercises

Make this picture. Each step of an episode is an exercise: you start from the step before, in the playground, and write the step until your picture matches. The page checks it for you, at three moments. It is a test of the episode itself: its noise and numbers have to be the same, so watch the episode first. Or find the slider values hidden in a finished shader.

Sign in and the ones you pass are marked here. Nothing is kept otherwise.

01 · Flowing Color Field

  1. Noise Make this step
  2. Folding the field over itself Make this step
  3. The kiln palette Finish it
  4. Match the sliders Find the values

02 · Morphing Shapes

  1. Seeing the distance Make this step
  2. Morphing Make this step
  3. Melting shapes together Make this step
  4. Heat and glow Finish it
  5. Match the sliders Find the values

03 · Floating 3D Scene

  1. A scene of shapes Make this step
  2. Which way the surface faces Make this step
  3. Light Make this step
  4. Kiln light Finish it
  5. Match the sliders Find the values

04 · Kaleidoscope

  1. Slices of a circle Make this step
  2. Mirrors Make this step
  3. A twist and a zoom Make this step
  4. Kiln glass Finish it
  5. Match the sliders Find the values

05 · Cracked Clay

  1. Edges become cracks Make this step
  2. A height for every pixel Make this step
  3. Bump lighting Make this step
  4. Fired clay Finish it
  5. Match the sliders Find the values

06 · Molten Metaballs

  1. Soft shadows Make this step
  2. Ambient occlusion Make this step
  3. Molten Finish it
  4. Match the sliders Find the values

07 · Fractal Glow

  1. Stay or escape Make this step
  2. Counting the steps Make this step
  3. Fractal glow Finish it
  4. Match the sliders Find the values

08 · Kiln Fire

  1. Light that adds up Make this step
  2. Noise in the flame Make this step
  3. Light that hides what's behind Make this step
  4. Kiln fire Finish it
  5. Match the sliders Find the values