[Tloewald]

Looks very interesting, but seems like they're <do we have a verb for HN traffic akin to slashdotting?>ed right now.

Looks like a tech demo right now. They need someone with taste to design a few actually attractive/useful shaders.

[andrewray]

All shaders are beautiful :)

This is a problem with user content submitted sites. It's hard not to conflate the quality of the content (shaders) with the quality of the product (ShaderFrog). There are no default ShaderFrog shaders, they're all user created.

The more oddball shaders (my favorites) are the composed shaders, which are not eligible to be used as inputs to other composed shaders. Only the basic shaders, which are generally higher quality because they require more knowledge of how GLSL works, can be inputs to composed shaders.

[Tloewald]

Right, but you do have a choice what's displayed on the landing page, and even what default objects the user is given to play with. It pays to select them well because ugly stuff can drive potential users away. You need to show people who aren't technical that you can achieve nice effects and show them how.