Organic cell simulation with infinite zoom (100k cells, raw WebGL)

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Made this little cell simulation with an infinite zoom mechanic in raw WebGL. Renders up to 100k cells on my laptop (M1 MBA).It's a single HTML file, not minified, without dependencies, so you can just inspect the source code. It's just raw JS and WebGL shaders. No assets, everything is procedurally generated.For each cell, I draw a single quad using instanced rendering. To create a nice organic wobble, I use SDF (Signed Distance Fields) to draw a circle (or another base shape), which is then distorted by adjusting the radius using multiple overlapping sine waves. I explain this visually here. [1]To get the cells to stretch dynamically based on their velocity, I use a technique called Domain

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Website: philomatics.com/cell-game-source