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Radiant Shader Gallery

Browsable gallery of 87 free WebGL and Canvas 2D background effects

Aboutradiant-shaders.com

This is the full browse view for Radiant, Paul Bakaus's MIT-licensed collection of generative shader art. It lists 87 named effects with live previews, filterable by style tag (fill, geometric, noise, object, organic, particles, physics) and by technique (WebGL, 60 / Canvas 2D, 27). Each entry links to a detail page with the effect running full-bleed and its tunable parameters, and a companion /learn section explains how three of them are built. Every effect ships as a single self-contained HTML file with zero dependencies and no build step.

For an agent

Use this page to pick an effect by eye, then take the matching HTML file from the GitHub repo - the site itself has no copy button or package. Embed the file in a fixed, z-index -1 iframe behind your content and drive parameters with postMessage; that isolation is the point, because it keeps the shader off your React render path entirely. Two cautions: these are decorative full-canvas animations with real GPU cost, so gate them behind prefers-reduced-motion and do not stack two on one page, and the gallery lists 87 effects while the repo README badge still says 94.

Why it is here. It is the rare shader collection that is both curated for taste and genuinely drop-in, which makes it the fastest route from a flat hero to a distinctive one without adding a 3D dependency.

Install command, framework, licence and component list.
Components it ships3
Helps you build3
Templates87
Notable for
  • 87 effects with live previews
  • filter by style tag and by technique
  • 60 WebGL, 27 Canvas 2D
  • effects named after their inspiration
  • /learn walkthroughs for three shaders
Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://radiant-shaders.com/gallery/all (fetched and link-extracted: 87 unique /shader/ URLs), https://github.com/pbakaus/radiant, GitHub API repos/pbakaus/radiant

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