shadertown 0.7.0 → 0.8.2

package/dist/registry.js

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     aurora: {
         name: "Aurora",
         tagline: "Layered curtains of light over a night sky",
-        description: "Three domain-warped noise curtains at different depths, drawn over a star field that thins out behind the brightest ribbons. The warp control decides whether it reads as a calm glow or a solar storm.",
+        description: "Green and violet curtains of light hang over a dark sky and drift sideways, brightest along their lower edge and fading out before they reach the top of the frame. Stars show through the gaps and thin out behind the strongest ribbons. Low warp reads as a calm glow, high warp as a solar storm.",
         family: "organic",
         tags: ["ambient", "hero", "dark"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     caustics: {
         name: "Caustics",
         tagline: "Light focused through a moving water surface",
-        description: "Three counter-rotating wave fields are stacked and sharpened into the bright web you see on the floor of a pool, with the three colour channels focusing at slightly different depths. Sharpness is the difference between a glow and a caustic.",
+        description: "The bright, moving web of light that water throws on the floor of a pool. The lines cross, pull apart and flare where the light focuses, with faint colour fringes along the sharpest ones. Low sharpness is a soft glow; high sharpness is hard caustic line work.",
         family: "organic",
         tags: ["water", "light", "pool"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -187,8 +187,8 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     swell: {
         name: "Swell",
-        tagline: "Open ocean to the horizon, no marching at all",
-        description: "The surface is an analytic plane; only its normal is waved, from choppy octaves whose crests are sharp and troughs round — the whole difference between water and moire. Fresnel decides how much sky the surface borrows, and the sun's glitter widens with distance until the far path is a single streak.",
+        tagline: "Open ocean to a bright, flat horizon",
+        description: "Open ocean to a bright horizon, choppy near the camera and flat glare far away. The crests are sharp and the troughs round, which is the whole difference between water and moire, and the water pales toward the horizon where it borrows the sky. The sun's glitter widens with distance until the far path is one streak.",
         family: "scene",
         tags: ["hero", "water", "3d", "pointer"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -250,8 +250,8 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     cumulus: {
         name: "Cumulus",
-        tagline: "Fair-weather cloud, shaded by one cheat",
-        description: "The clouds are warped fbm on a plane overhead; their lighting is a single extra sample toward the sun — density falling that way means a lit face, rising means its own shadow. God rays are the same field re-read a few times along the screen-space line to the sun. Nothing here is a volume, and it reads like one.",
+        tagline: "Fair-weather cloud on a summer sky",
+        description: "Fair-weather cloud on a blue sky, lit from one side with grey undersides and soft god rays reaching down from the sun. The clouds build and slide past overhead. It reads as a summer afternoon rather than as weather.",
         family: "scene",
         tags: ["hero", "sky", "soft", "pointer"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -311,66 +311,81 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
             { name: "Dusk", colorA: "#28306e", colorB: "#5a6494", colorC: "#ff9e6b" },
         ],
     },
-    plasma: {
-        name: "Plasma",
-        tagline: "Stacked sine fields, the oldest trick in the demoscene",
-        description: "Four interfering sine fields plus a rotating fifth, coloured through a cycling ramp and cut by iso-contours. Loud on purpose — it is the counterweight to the quiet gradients in this catalogue.",
-        family: "geometric",
-        tags: ["retro", "loud", "cycling"],
-        cost: "light",
+    ferro: {
+        name: "Ferro",
+        tagline: "A pool of ferrofluid, and the pointer is the magnet",
+        description: "A dark pool of bright points at rest in a slow swell. Under the pointer a crown of spikes rises, the stiff hedgehog that real ferrofluid grows over a magnet, and rings ripple out from the same place. Move the pointer and the crown hands itself from spike to spike instead of sliding along as one shape.",
+        family: "particles",
+        tags: ["particles", "3d", "interactive", "pointer", "dark"],
+        cost: "heavy",
         controls: {
             ...base,
-            speed: { ...base.speed, default: 0.7 },
-            scale: { ...base.scale, default: 0.55, min: 0.1, max: 2 },
-            vibrancy: { ...base.vibrancy, default: 1.25 },
-            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0.3 },
-            radial: {
+            speed: { ...base.speed, default: 1, max: 2 },
+            scale: { ...base.scale, default: 1, min: 0.4, max: 2.5, hint: "Zoom of the resting swell. The crown keeps its own size." },
+            intensity: { ...base.intensity, default: 1 },
+            vibrancy: { ...base.vibrancy, default: 1.1 },
+            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0.4 },
+            warp: {
+                ...warp,
+                label: "Swell",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                default: 0.8,
+                hint: "The resting motion of the pool, far from the magnet.",
+            },
+            field: {
                 slot: "a",
-                label: "Radial",
+                label: "Field",
                 min: 0,
-                max: 3,
+                max: 2,
                 step: 0.01,
                 default: 1,
-                hint: "Weight of the concentric ring field.",
+                hint: "The magnet's reach. Everything the pointer does happens inside it.",
             },
-            swirl: {
+            spikes: {
                 slot: "b",
-                label: "Swirl",
+                label: "Spikes",
                 min: 0,
-                max: 3,
+                max: 2,
                 step: 0.01,
                 default: 1,
-                hint: "Rotation rate of the secondary interference field.",
+                hint: "Density of the crown. High is needles, low is a few broad cones.",
             },
-            interference: {
+            ripples: {
                 slot: "c",
-                label: "Interference",
+                label: "Ripples",
                 min: 0,
                 max: 2,
                 step: 0.01,
-                default: 0.8,
-                hint: "How strongly the rotating field beats against the rest.",
+                default: 0.9,
+                hint: "The rings the disturbance sheds.",
             },
-            cycles: {
+            pull: {
                 slot: "d",
-                label: "Colour cycles",
-                min: 0.2,
-                max: 4,
+                label: "Pull",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
                 step: 0.01,
                 default: 1,
-                hint: "Number of times the palette repeats across the field.",
+                hint: "How hard the magnet lifts the fluid.",
             },
         },
         colors: {
-            colorA: color("Low", "#120458", "Darkest band of the ramp."),
-            colorB: color("Mid", "#e0245e", "The dominant colour."),
-            colorC: color("High", "#fdd835", "Peaks of the field."),
+            colorA: color("Fluid", "#0d1016", "The black pool at rest."),
+            colorB: color("Sheen", "#3d4d63", "The light on the fluid's flanks."),
+            colorC: color("Tips", "#b8e6ff", "The top of every spike in the crown."),
         },
+        presets: [
+            { name: "Laboratory", colorA: "#0d1016", colorB: "#3d4d63", colorC: "#b8e6ff" },
+            { name: "Oil", colorA: "#12100c", colorB: "#4d4436", colorC: "#ffe0a3" },
+            { name: "Plasma", colorA: "#130a1a", colorB: "#6d3aa8", colorC: "#ffb8f0" },
+            { name: "Mercury", colorA: "#101314", colorB: "#5d6a70", colorC: "#f0fbff" },
+        ],
     },
     archipelago: {
         name: "Archipelago",
         tagline: "A nautical chart on a slow drift",
-        description: "Unbounded warped fbm thresholded at sea level, so the map scrolls forever without repeating. Contour lines keep their width from screen derivatives, every fifth is drawn heavier, water carries bathymetric tints and the old-map glow that hugs a coast, and the relief is shaded as if engraved.",
+        description: "A nautical chart on a slow drift: green land, pale blue water, and contour lines that hold their weight at any size. Every fifth line is drawn heavier, the shallows carry the soft glow an old map puts along a coast, and the relief looks engraved. The map scrolls forever without repeating.",
         family: "scene",
         tags: ["island", "map", "editorial", "calm"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -432,7 +447,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     "pixel-isle": {
         name: "Pixel Isle",
         tagline: "A procedural island, one hard biome per cell",
-        description: "Warped fbm minus a radial falloff makes the terrain; every cell then commits to a single biome from deep water up to snow, with the Bayer screen dithering each border the way hand-made maps do. Waves march against every coast and the tide wets the lowest sand. The seed decides the map: one big island, or an archipelago of two or three.",
+        description: "A pixel-art island on a deep blue sea, drawn in a handful of flat colours. Sand, grass and bare rock meet at hard dithered borders, waves march against every coast, and the tide wets the lowest sand. The seed decides the map: one big island, or an archipelago of two or three.",
         family: "pixel",
         tags: ["pixel", "retro", "island", "map"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -494,7 +509,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     voronoi: {
         name: "Voronoi",
         tagline: "Animated cells with lit edges",
-        description: "A jittered Voronoi diagram where every seed moves on its own circle. Cells are tinted by hash, shaded by distance to their seed, and separated by a controllable ridge — crystalline rather than organic.",
+        description: "Angular cells with lit edges, each tinted its own shade and darkest at its middle. The cells slide against each other as their seeds travel, so every border re-cuts continuously. Crystalline rather than organic.",
         family: "geometric",
         tags: ["cells", "crystal", "structured"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -546,68 +561,81 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
             colorC: color("Edge", "#9be7ff", "The ridge light."),
         },
     },
-    "liquid-metal": {
-        name: "Liquid Metal",
-        tagline: "A warped height field lit like polished chrome",
-        description: "Noise is warped into a height field, differentiated into a normal, then lit with a moving key light and a banded environment. The banding is what separates metal from plastic, so turn Polish up before you turn Strength up.",
-        family: "organic",
-        tags: ["chrome", "reflective", "premium"],
+    dunes: {
+        name: "Dunes",
+        tagline: "A sand sea crawling downwind, crests picked out in light",
+        description: "A sand sea drawn in points of light, crawling downwind. The crests are knife ridges that take the accent colour along their spines while the slip faces stay dark, and fine ripples ride over the much larger forms that carry them.",
+        family: "particles",
+        tags: ["particles", "3d", "hero", "landscape", "calm"],
         cost: "heavy",
         controls: {
             ...base,
-            speed: { ...base.speed, default: 0.29, max: 2 },
-            scale: { ...base.scale, default: 0.86 },
-            intensity: { ...base.intensity, default: 2.05 },
-            vibrancy: { ...base.vibrancy, default: 0.03 },
-            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0.87 },
-            warp: { ...warp, default: 0.79, max: 2 },
-            relief: {
+            speed: { ...base.speed, default: 1, max: 2 },
+            scale: { ...base.scale, default: 1, min: 0.4, max: 2.5, hint: "Dune size. Lower is bigger weather." },
+            intensity: { ...base.intensity, default: 1.35 },
+            vibrancy: { ...base.vibrancy, default: 1.05 },
+            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0.4 },
+            warp: {
+                ...warp,
+                label: "Meander",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                default: 0.7,
+                hint: "How much the dune belts snake instead of running in ruler lines.",
+            },
+            ridge: {
                 slot: "a",
-                label: "Relief",
-                min: 0.05,
-                max: 3,
+                label: "Ridge",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 1,
                 step: 0.01,
-                default: 2.57,
-                hint: "Steepness of the surface. High values give a boiling, molten look.",
+                default: 0.7,
+                hint: "0 is soft hills, 1 is sharp slip faces.",
             },
-            polish: {
+            wind: {
                 slot: "b",
-                label: "Polish",
-                min: 0,
-                max: 1,
+                label: "Wind",
+                min: -2,
+                max: 2,
                 step: 0.01,
-                default: 0.31,
-                hint: "Tightness of the specular highlight.",
+                default: 0.6,
+                hint: "Drift of the whole sand sea. Negative reverses it.",
             },
-            body: {
+            crest: {
                 slot: "c",
-                label: "Body",
+                label: "Crest glow",
                 min: 0,
                 max: 2,
                 step: 0.01,
-                default: 1.18,
-                hint: "Weight of the environment reflection under the highlight.",
+                default: 1,
+                hint: "The accent colour along the ridge spines.",
             },
-            rim: {
+            ripples: {
                 slot: "d",
-                label: "Rim",
+                label: "Ripples",
                 min: 0,
                 max: 2,
                 step: 0.01,
-                default: 1.21,
-                hint: "Fresnel glow at grazing angles.",
+                default: 0.8,
+                hint: "The fine wind ripples riding the dune faces.",
             },
         },
         colors: {
-            colorA: color("Steel", "#8a3121", "The dark side of the environment."),
-            colorB: color("Sheen", "#0f236b", "Mid reflection."),
-            colorC: color("Hot", "#da41c6", "Brightest reflection and rim light."),
+            colorA: color("Night sand", "#1a1428", "The sand in shadow, and the dark between dots."),
+            colorB: color("Dune", "#8a5fb8", "The lit body of every dune."),
+            colorC: color("Crest", "#ffd9a8", "The spines the light catches."),
         },
+        presets: [
+            { name: "Moonlit", colorA: "#1a1428", colorB: "#8a5fb8", colorC: "#ffd9a8" },
+            { name: "Sahara", colorA: "#2b1a10", colorB: "#c98544", colorC: "#ffe8bd" },
+            { name: "Ash", colorA: "#131417", colorB: "#5d6672", colorC: "#e6ecf2" },
+            { name: "Mars", colorA: "#200c08", colorB: "#a83f22", colorC: "#ffb37a" },
+        ],
     },
     starfield: {
         name: "Starfield",
         tagline: "A warp corridor of depth-sorted stars",
-        description: "Six depth slices of hashed star points, each scaled and faded by its distance, with radial motion blur that turns points into streaks. Push Streak and it goes from a calm night sky to a jump to lightspeed.",
+        description: "Stars in depth, streaked outward from the middle of the frame like a warp corridor. Near stars are large and bright, far ones are faint dust. Low streak is a calm night sky; high streak is a jump to lightspeed.",
         family: "spatial",
         tags: ["space", "motion", "dark"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -664,7 +692,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     ripple: {
         name: "Ripple",
         tagline: "Interference between travelling circular waves",
-        description: "Five wave sources orbit the frame; their sum is read as a height field and its slope is used to refract the palette, with a separate caustic term where the wavefronts focus. Genuinely physical, not a stack of sine stripes.",
+        description: "Circular waves from several travelling sources cross into a standing interference pattern, with bright ridges where the fronts meet and flares where they focus. The colour bends along the slope of the water, so it reads as a surface rather than as stacked stripes.",
         family: "organic",
         tags: ["water", "interference", "calm"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -721,7 +749,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     "film-grain": {
         name: "Film Grain",
         tagline: "Stock grain, halation and scanlines over a slow wash",
-        description: "A texture pass rather than a picture: a slow noise wash read through three chromatically offset channels, then buried in resolution-independent grain, scanlines and halation. Sits well behind text at low Strength.",
+        description: "A slow, almost featureless wash of colour buried in grain, with soft scanlines over it and a halo around anything bright. The colour separates a little at the edges, the way film stock does. At low strength it sits quietly behind text.",
         family: "texture",
         tags: ["analog", "overlay", "noise"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -778,7 +806,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     truchet: {
         name: "Truchet",
         tagline: "Quarter-arc tiles that flip in place",
-        description: "A Truchet tiling where each tile decides its own orientation on its own clock, so the maze continuously rewires itself while the whole field pans and rotates. Hard-edged line art with no noise wash anywhere.",
+        description: "Quarter-circle arcs on a black ground, joining tile to tile into one continuous maze. Each tile flips on its own clock, so the maze rewires itself while the whole field pans and turns. Hard-edged line art with no soft wash anywhere.",
         family: "geometric",
         tags: ["lines", "pattern", "graphic"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -834,7 +862,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     kaleidoscope: {
         name: "Kaleidoscope",
         tagline: "Polar mirror folding over a drifting field",
-        description: "The angle around the centre is folded into one wedge and mirrored, then a warped noise field and a ring pattern are read through it. Segments is the control that changes the character entirely.",
+        description: "A radial rosette: one wedge of a drifting field mirrored around the centre into a symmetric flower of colour and rings. The pattern breathes and turns slowly. Segment count changes the character completely.",
         family: "geometric",
         tags: ["symmetry", "polar", "hypnotic"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -890,7 +918,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     halftone: {
         name: "Halftone",
         tagline: "A duotone image reproduced as a rotated dot screen",
-        description: "A continuous noise image is screened through a rotated grid of dots whose radius tracks local ink coverage — the way an actual halftone plate works. Screen angle and dot pitch matter more than any colour choice here.",
+        description: "A two-colour picture reproduced as a screen of dots on a rotated grid, dense in the shadows and open in the highlights, exactly as a printing plate lays ink down. Screen angle and dot pitch matter more here than any colour choice.",
         family: "texture",
         tags: ["print", "duotone", "editorial"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -944,8 +972,8 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     tunnel: {
         name: "Tunnel",
-        tagline: "A raymarched corridor with emissive rings",
-        description: "A real sphere-traced scene: the camera flies down a curving corrugated tube, the wall is textured in tunnel space, and lit rings pass overhead at fixed intervals. The most expensive shader here, and the only one with actual depth.",
+        tagline: "A corridor flying past lit rings",
+        description: "A corrugated corridor seen from inside, curving away into the dark, with bright rings passing overhead at regular intervals. The camera flies forward continuously. The most expensive shader here, and the only one with real depth.",
         family: "spatial",
         tags: ["raymarching", "3d", "motion"],
         cost: "heavy",
@@ -999,8 +1027,8 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     julia: {
         name: "Julia",
-        tagline: "Escape-time fractal with orbit-trap colouring",
-        description: "A Julia set whose seed walks a circle near the cardioid edge, so the shape morphs between connected and dust-like without ever being static. Colour comes from a smoothed iteration count plus a distance-to-unit-circle orbit trap.",
+        tagline: "A morphing fractal ringed with colour bands",
+        description: "A fractal caught between a solid body and a cloud of dust, ringed by tight bands of colour that crowd toward its edge. The shape morphs continuously between the two states, so it is never static and never repeats.",
         family: "fractal",
         tags: ["mathematical", "detail", "zoom"],
         cost: "heavy",
@@ -1055,8 +1083,8 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     silk: {
         name: "Silk",
-        tagline: "Anisotropic sheen across warped fibre lines",
-        description: "Two stages of domain warp fold the plane, then dense parallel fibres are bent along the folds and given a directional sheen. Creases darken, ridges catch the light — cloth rather than liquid.",
+        tagline: "A sheen running across folded fibres",
+        description: "Dense parallel fibres bent into wide folds, with a directional sheen that lights the ridges and darkens the creases. It reads as cloth catching the light rather than as liquid.",
         family: "organic",
         tags: ["fabric", "soft", "luxury"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -1114,7 +1142,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     "neon-grid": {
         name: "Neon Grid",
         tagline: "Perspective floor, banded sun, horizon haze",
-        description: "A projected floor grid with analytic line width, a horizontal-banded sun sitting on the horizon, and a haze band welding the two together. Synthwave, executed straight rather than ironically.",
+        description: "A cyan grid running back to a horizon under a banded sun, with a haze band welding the floor to the sky. Synthwave played straight rather than ironically.",
         family: "spatial",
         tags: ["synthwave", "retro", "horizon"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -1170,7 +1198,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     bokeh: {
         name: "Bokeh",
         tagline: "Out-of-focus lights drifting through depth",
-        description: "Four depth layers of hashed light points, each rendered as a disc with a bright rim — how a real lens renders a defocused highlight. Nearer layers are larger and brighter, so the field reads as depth rather than as flat circles.",
+        description: "Out-of-focus lights drifting in depth, each a soft disc with a brighter rim, which is how a fast lens renders a highlight it cannot resolve. Near discs are large and bright, far ones small and dim, so the field reads as depth instead of as flat circles.",
         family: "spatial",
         tags: ["lights", "depth", "festive"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -1224,8 +1252,8 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     dither: {
         name: "Dither",
-        tagline: "A smooth field quantised through an 8×8 Bayer matrix",
-        description: "The source image is pixelated, offset by an ordered-dither threshold, then crushed to a handful of levels. Deliberately low-fi: flat colour, a visible pattern, and no antialiasing anywhere.",
+        tagline: "Flat colour and a visible dot pattern",
+        description: "The layer crushed down to a few flat colours and screened through a coarse, visible dot pattern, with chunky pixel steps and no smoothing anywhere. Deliberately low-fi.",
         family: "texture",
         tags: ["lofi", "pixel", "poster"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -1279,57 +1307,41 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     "mesh-gradient": {
         name: "Mesh Gradient",
-        tagline: "Soft colour centres orbiting behind frosted glass",
-        description: "Four gaussian colour wells drift on independent orbits and blend by weight, with a gentle domain warp so the result never collapses into obvious radial gradients. The default for marketing surfaces and card backgrounds.",
+        tagline: "Flowing colour spots under swirl and noise",
+        description: "Four soft colour spots drift on slow orbits and melt into one another, with a swirl at the centre that fades toward the edges and a gentle bend over the whole frame. The midpoints stay vivid instead of greying out. The default for marketing surfaces and card backgrounds.",
         family: "gradient",
         tags: ["ambient", "background", "soft"],
         cost: "light",
         controls: {
             ...base,
-            speed: { ...base.speed, default: 1.23, max: 2 },
-            scale: { ...base.scale, default: 2.57 },
-            intensity: { ...base.intensity, default: 2.17 },
-            vibrancy: { ...base.vibrancy, default: 1.54 },
-            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0.96 },
-            warp: { ...warp, default: 0.94, max: 1.5 },
-            softness: {
-                slot: "a",
-                label: "Softness",
-                min: 0.1,
-                max: 1.2,
-                step: 0.01,
-                default: 0.94,
-                hint: "Radius of each colour well. Larger means a flatter blend.",
+            speed: { ...base.speed, max: 2 },
+            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0 },
+            warp: {
+                ...warp,
+                label: "Distortion",
+                max: 1.5,
+                hint: "How far the simplex field bends the sampling domain.",
             },
-            spread: {
-                slot: "b",
-                label: "Spread",
+            swirl: {
+                slot: "a",
+                label: "Swirl",
                 min: 0,
-                max: 1,
-                step: 0.01,
-                default: 0.51,
-                hint: "How far the wells travel from the centre.",
-            },
-            coverage: {
-                slot: "c",
-                label: "Coverage",
-                min: 0.2,
-                max: 4,
+                max: 2,
                 step: 0.01,
-                default: 1.15,
-                hint: "How much of the dark backdrop the colour hides.",
+                default: 0.7,
+                hint: "Rotation of the domain around the centre; decays toward the edges.",
             },
         },
         colors: {
-            colorA: color("First", "#555810", "Warm anchor colour."),
-            colorB: color("Second", "#e7e94f", "Mid tone that bridges the other two."),
-            colorC: color("Third", "#55bc19", "Cool accent."),
+            colorA: color("First", "#471c4e", "Deep anchor; the fourth spot wears it again."),
+            colorB: color("Second", "#e7597c", "Bright mid tone."),
+            colorC: color("Third", "#ffe0c2", "Pale highlight."),
         },
     },
     radiance: {
         name: "Radiance",
         tagline: "Lamps in a dark room, traced to whatever they light",
-        description: "Global illumination taken the short way round. There is no light pass and no probe grid to merge: the room is a handful of signed distances, so every pixel fans rays into it and marches each one back to its source. That buys a true shadow — hard where a lamp is small, soft where it is near, and cast by bars that turn every frame. The pointer is the brightest lamp in the room, so moving it moves every shadow.",
+        description: "A dark room with a few small lamps in it, and everything they light. Shadows are hard beside a small lamp and soft beside a near one, and turning bars sweep shadow blades across the floor. The pointer is the brightest lamp in the room, so moving it moves every shadow.",
         family: "spatial",
         tags: ["light", "shadow", "dark", "pointer"],
         cost: "heavy",
@@ -1385,7 +1397,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     lumen: {
         name: "Lumen",
         tagline: "A lattice of dots, each one a lamp and a wall at once",
-        description: "Every dot gives light and blocks it, so the field shadows itself. The lattice is what makes that affordable: all the dots are the same size, so the nearest one to any point is simply the nearest lattice node and the distance to the whole field is exact rather than estimated. A ray crosses a dozen cells in a few steps, which is why the shadows run the width of the frame. A wave decides which dots are lit; the dark ones stay in the picture as grey, and keep casting.",
+        description: "A lattice of glowing dots on a coloured ground, where every dot both gives light and blocks it, so shadows run the full width of the frame. A wave decides which dots are lit; the dark ones stay in the picture as grey and keep casting.",
         family: "geometric",
         tags: ["light", "grid", "loader", "dark"],
         cost: "heavy",
@@ -1441,7 +1453,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     beacon: {
         name: "Beacon",
         tagline: "A triangle of LEDs on a floor that catches what they throw",
-        description: "The glow is computed, never blurred. Each edge contributes an exponential falloff off the line itself and a second off the emitter nearest along it, both analytic, so the halo keeps its shape at any zoom and the LEDs stay round at any pixel density. The floor is the same light field read at the mirrored point, widened with depth — a reflection for the price of a second lookup. Give two edges different colours and the plate picks up both.",
+        description: "A triangle of LED strip glowing in the dark, with the round emitters visible along each edge and a widening reflection on the floor below. The halo holds its shape at any size and the LEDs stay round at any pixel density. Give two edges different colours and the floor picks up both.",
         family: "geometric",
         tags: ["hero", "neon", "dark", "pointer"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -1497,7 +1509,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     orb: {
         name: "Orb",
         tagline: "A liquid blob suspended in a sphere of glass",
-        description: "The glass is analytic and the blob is marched, which is the only way this fits in one pass: a sphere is two roots of a quadratic, so entry, exit and both normals are exact and the ray only has to be stepped between them. The body inside is lobes melted together with a smooth minimum, which is what keeps it reading as one liquid thing rather than as balls in a bag. Nothing has a hard edge — the silhouette is antialiased off a field that stays smooth across the frame, and the blob off its own distance. The pointer turns the studio, so the highlights travel across the glass.",
+        description: "A liquid blob suspended inside a glass sphere, lit like a studio object: highlights on the glass, refraction through it, and lobes melted into one soft body inside. Nothing has a hard edge. The pointer turns the studio, so the highlights travel across the glass.",
         family: "organic",
         tags: ["glass", "hero", "3d", "pointer"],
         cost: "heavy",
@@ -1561,7 +1573,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     eyes: {
         name: "Eyes",
         tagline: "A wall of eyes that look where the pointer goes",
-        description: "Each cell is one eye: an almond of sclera, an iris that travels toward the cursor, a lid that blinks on its own clock. The gaze is the interactive part — move the pointer and the whole wall follows it — but the idle frame carries itself: with no pointer the eyes wander, each on its own phase, so a card is never a grid of dead centres.",
+        description: "A wall of eyes, each a pale almond of sclera around a coloured iris, blinking on its own clock. Move the pointer and every iris turns to follow it. With no pointer they wander, each on its own phase, so the frame is never a grid of dead centres.",
         family: "geometric",
         tags: ["interactive", "pointer", "playful"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -1616,7 +1628,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     tesla: {
         name: "Tesla",
         tagline: "A plasma globe whose filament reaches for your finger",
-        description: "The bolts are analytic: each one is a base angle plus a noise wiggle that grows with radius, so a pixel's distance to a filament is its angular error times its radius — no marching, no segments. Bolts re-roll their heading on a coarse clock, which is the jump that reads as electricity. One bolt always seeks the pointer, clamped to the inside of the glass, exactly what the real toy does when a hand touches the dome.",
+        description: "A plasma globe: bright filaments branch from a core out to the inside of the glass, wandering and then snapping to new headings. One filament always reaches for the pointer and stops at the glass, exactly what the real toy does when a hand touches the dome.",
         family: "organic",
         tags: ["interactive", "pointer", "dark", "hero"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -1679,7 +1691,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     magnet: {
         name: "Magnet",
         tagline: "Field lines of three charges, one riding the pointer",
-        description: "Nothing here is traced. The stream function of a point charge is its angle and its potential is the log of its distance, so field lines are level sets of one sum and equipotentials of the other — the whole plot is two sin() calls over closed forms, live at any resolution. The pointer carries the third charge; its slider steps by whole numbers because the picture's continuity across the branch cuts depends on the charges being integers.",
+        description: "The field lines of three charges, drawn as smooth curves that fan out of each pole and loop into the next, over softly shaded equipotentials. The pointer carries the third charge, so dragging it re-routes every line on screen.",
         family: "geometric",
         tags: ["interactive", "pointer", "diagram"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -1725,7 +1737,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     torch: {
         name: "Torch",
         tagline: "A light in your hand, moving over rock in the dark",
-        description: "The wall is a heightfield and the lamp is the pointer, so the shading is honest: the fbm that draws the rock is differentiated for a normal, and crevices light up and go dark as the torch passes over them — which is what makes the surface read as carved rather than printed. The flame gutters on two noise rates, a slow breathe under a fast sputter, and dust motes drift through the beam because lit air is the only air you can see.",
+        description: "Rough rock in the dark, with a light in your hand. Crevices light up and fall dark as the pointer passes over them, so the surface reads as carved rather than printed. The flame gutters on a slow breathe under a fast sputter, and dust drifts through the beam.",
         family: "spatial",
         tags: ["interactive", "pointer", "dark"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -1788,7 +1800,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     parallax: {
         name: "Parallax",
         tagline: "Ridgelines in depth, and the pointer moves the camera",
-        description: "Five silhouettes, each a one-dimensional ridged fbm thresholded against the pixel's height. Depth is faked twice over: haze mixes each layer toward the sky, and the pointer pans each layer by its own factor — the near ridge slides furthest, which is the one cue that turns a flat stack into a landscape you are standing in. Time scrolls the world slowly on its own.",
+        description: "Ridgelines stacked into the distance, each a flat silhouette paler than the one in front, under a low sun. Move the pointer and the near ridge slides furthest, which turns the flat stack into a landscape you are standing in. The world scrolls slowly on its own.",
         family: "organic",
         tags: ["interactive", "pointer", "hero", "calm"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -1842,7 +1854,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     gravity: {
         name: "Gravity",
         tagline: "A starfield lensed by a mass that rides the pointer",
-        description: "The lens is the physics, simplified once: a point mass deflects light by the square of its Einstein radius over the impact distance, so every sample is just read from a pushed position. That one line produces everything the picture is known for — stars smeared into arcs, the ring at the Einstein radius, doubled images inside it — and dragging the pointer drags the distortion across the sky.",
+        description: "A starfield behind a heavy mass: the stars smear into arcs around it, a bright ring stands at the lensing radius, and images double inside that ring. Dragging the pointer drags the whole distortion across the sky.",
         family: "spatial",
         tags: ["interactive", "pointer", "dark", "hero"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -1897,7 +1909,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     particles: {
         name: "Particles",
         tagline: "A hundred thousand embers riding a wind you can bend",
-        description: "A real particle system, not a texture of dots: every ember integrates through a curl-noise wind on the GPU and deposits its passage into an exposure that never quite forgets. The curl is what keeps it alive — a divergence-free field has no sinks, so the streams braid and circulate instead of pooling. The picture is the long exposure, not the frame: trails are history, and colour is speed. The pointer is a vortex that gathers the swarm; push its charge below zero and it scatters instead.",
+        description: "A hundred thousand embers riding a turbulent wind, drawn as a long exposure that never quite forgets — the trails are history and the colour is speed. The streams braid and circulate instead of pooling. The pointer is a vortex that gathers the swarm; push its charge below zero and it scatters instead.",
         family: "compute",
         tags: ["simulation", "interactive", "pointer", "hero", "dark"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -1962,7 +1974,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     fluid: {
         name: "Fluid",
         tagline: "Ink in water that answers the pointer",
-        description: "The incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, solved for real every frame: velocity advects through itself, twenty pressure sweeps cancel the divergence, and vorticity confinement feeds back the small whirls a coarse grid keeps averaging away. The dye rides a grid four times finer than the velocity that carries it, so the physics stays cheap while the ink stays sharp. Drag the pointer to splat force and colour together; leave it alone and it breathes on its own.",
+        description: "Ink in water. Drag the pointer and colour lays down in one unbroken stroke, then curls and frays into the whirls a real stroke leaves behind. Leave it alone and the surface breathes, throwing slow plumes of its own.",
         family: "compute",
         tags: ["simulation", "interactive", "pointer", "hero", "liquid"],
         cost: "heavy",
@@ -2025,7 +2037,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     cloth: {
         name: "Cloth",
         tagline: "A sheet of silk in a wind, and the pointer is a hand",
-        description: "Two and a half thousand points hold each other at fixed distances — structural, shear and bend — and relax in parallel ten times a frame, the way cloth solvers have worked since Jakobsen. The sheet hangs from its pins, billows on a two-speed wind, and drapes around an invisible sphere the pointer carries, so a slow hand presses a bulge into it and a fast one throws a fold across the whole width. With no vertex pipeline in sight, the cloth rasterises itself: each cell splats its patch of surface into an atomic depth buffer, and the shading is done back on the true sheet — smooth normals, a thread-direction sheen, a shadow on the wall behind.",
+        description: "A sheet of silk hanging from its top edge, billowing on a two-speed wind, with soft folds and a sheen running along the thread. The pointer carries an invisible ball: a slow hand presses a bulge into the sheet, a fast one throws a fold across the whole width.",
         family: "compute",
         tags: ["simulation", "interactive", "pointer", "fabric", "3d"],
         cost: "heavy",
@@ -2078,10 +2090,337 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
             colorC: color("Sheen", "#68ef6d", "The light along the threads."),
         },
     },
+    chladni: {
+        name: "Chladni",
+        tagline: "A singing plate, mapped by the sand on its silent lines",
+        description: "A square plate that sings, mapped by the bright points that gather on the lines which never move — the same way sand walks to the silence on a real vibrating plate. The figure ripples through zero as the plate rings, and sweeping the mode numbers re-solves one figure into the next instead of cutting.",
+        family: "particles",
+        tags: ["particles", "3d", "hero", "dark", "scientific"],
+        cost: "heavy",
+        controls: {
+            ...base,
+            speed: { ...base.speed, default: 0.9, max: 2 },
+            scale: { ...base.scale, default: 1, min: 0.4, max: 2, hint: "Zoom of the plate in the frame." },
+            intensity: { ...base.intensity, default: 1 },
+            vibrancy: { ...base.vibrancy, default: 1.1 },
+            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0.35 },
+            warp: {
+                ...warp,
+                label: "Ripple",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                default: 0.5,
+                hint: "A travelling wave from the driver at the centre, on top of the figure.",
+            },
+            "mode-m": {
+                slot: "a",
+                label: "Mode m",
+                min: 1,
+                max: 9,
+                step: 1,
+                default: 3,
+                hint: "First mode number. The pair decides which figure the plate sings.",
+            },
+            "mode-n": {
+                slot: "b",
+                label: "Mode n",
+                min: 1,
+                max: 9,
+                step: 1,
+                default: 5,
+                hint: "Second mode number. Equal numbers cancel to a flat plate.",
+            },
+            sand: {
+                slot: "c",
+                label: "Sand",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 1.1,
+                hint: "How brightly the nodal lines collect the accent colour.",
+            },
+            sweep: {
+                slot: "d",
+                label: "Sweep",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 0.6,
+                hint: "Drifts both mode numbers, morphing one figure into the next. 0 holds still.",
+            },
+        },
+        colors: {
+            colorA: color("Plate", "#101b2e", "The dark metal under everything."),
+            colorB: color("Wave", "#3f6fde", "The moving body of the figure."),
+            colorC: color("Sand", "#f5e9c8", "The grains on the silent lines."),
+        },
+        presets: [
+            { name: "Workshop", colorA: "#101b2e", colorB: "#3f6fde", colorC: "#f5e9c8" },
+            { name: "Oscilloscope", colorA: "#04140c", colorB: "#1fbf6e", colorC: "#d8ffe9" },
+            { name: "Rose", colorA: "#1d0f1e", colorB: "#b04a8f", colorC: "#ffd9e8" },
+            { name: "Heat", colorA: "#1a0d08", colorB: "#c2521f", colorC: "#ffe3a3" },
+        ],
+    },
+    "liquid-metal": {
+        name: "Liquid Metal",
+        tagline: "Polished chrome, rippling",
+        description: "Polished chrome, rippling. Banded reflections slide across the surface and a moving key light picks out the crests; the banding is what separates metal from plastic, so turn Polish up before you turn Strength up.",
+        family: "organic",
+        tags: ["chrome", "reflective", "premium"],
+        cost: "heavy",
+        controls: {
+            ...base,
+            speed: { ...base.speed, default: 0.29, max: 2 },
+            scale: { ...base.scale, default: 0.86 },
+            intensity: { ...base.intensity, default: 2.05 },
+            vibrancy: { ...base.vibrancy, default: 0.03 },
+            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0.87 },
+            warp: { ...warp, default: 0.79, max: 2 },
+            relief: {
+                slot: "a",
+                label: "Relief",
+                min: 0.05,
+                max: 3,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 2.57,
+                hint: "Steepness of the surface. High values give a boiling, molten look.",
+            },
+            polish: {
+                slot: "b",
+                label: "Polish",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 1,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 0.31,
+                hint: "Tightness of the specular highlight.",
+            },
+            body: {
+                slot: "c",
+                label: "Body",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 1.18,
+                hint: "Weight of the environment reflection under the highlight.",
+            },
+            rim: {
+                slot: "d",
+                label: "Rim",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 1.21,
+                hint: "Fresnel glow at grazing angles.",
+            },
+        },
+        colors: {
+            colorA: color("Steel", "#8a3121", "The dark side of the environment."),
+            colorB: color("Sheen", "#0f236b", "Mid reflection."),
+            colorC: color("Hot", "#da41c6", "Brightest reflection and rim light."),
+        },
+    },
+    maelstrom: {
+        name: "Maelstrom",
+        tagline: "A whirlpool of particles, wound into the drain",
+        description: "A whirlpool of points seen from the rim, its arms winding tighter as they near a funnel at the centre. The dots visibly circle the drain rather than bob on a waving floor, and froth rides the forward face of each arm and thickens toward the eye.",
+        family: "particles",
+        tags: ["particles", "3d", "hero", "dark", "motion"],
+        cost: "heavy",
+        controls: {
+            ...base,
+            speed: { ...base.speed, default: 0.52, max: 2.5 },
+            scale: { ...base.scale, default: 1.76, min: 0.4, max: 2, hint: "Zoom of the vortex in the frame." },
+            intensity: { ...base.intensity, default: 0.43 },
+            vibrancy: { ...base.vibrancy, default: 0.59 },
+            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0.76 },
+            warp: {
+                ...warp,
+                label: "Wander",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                default: 1.54,
+                hint: "How far the eye drifts from centre. 0 pins it like a screensaver.",
+            },
+            arms: {
+                slot: "a",
+                label: "Arms",
+                min: 1,
+                max: 8,
+                step: 1,
+                default: 5,
+                hint: "Spiral arms wound into the funnel.",
+            },
+            twist: {
+                slot: "b",
+                label: "Twist",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 3,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 2.84,
+                hint: "How tightly the arms wind. 0 makes straight spokes.",
+            },
+            churn: {
+                slot: "c",
+                label: "Churn",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 0.56,
+                hint: "Broken water riding the arms, and the froth it feeds.",
+            },
+            depth: {
+                slot: "d",
+                label: "Depth",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 0.54,
+                hint: "The funnel at the middle. 0 flattens the drain shut.",
+            },
+        },
+        colors: {
+            colorA: color("Deep", "#0a1a24", "The water the light does not reach."),
+            colorB: color("Current", "#1e8f9e", "The turning body of the vortex."),
+            colorC: color("Froth", "#dffbff", "The broken water on every arm."),
+        },
+        presets: [
+            { name: "North sea", colorA: "#0a1a24", colorB: "#1e8f9e", colorC: "#dffbff" },
+            { name: "Ink", colorA: "#0d0d16", colorB: "#4b3f9e", colorC: "#c9bfff" },
+            { name: "Lava", colorA: "#170a06", colorB: "#b8461c", colorC: "#ffd9a0" },
+            { name: "Lagoon", colorA: "#062621", colorB: "#17a884", colorC: "#e8fff2" },
+        ],
+    },
+    plasma: {
+        name: "Plasma",
+        tagline: "Loud blobs of colour, cut by contour lines",
+        description: "Big soft blobs of saturated colour, cut by thin contour lines and cycling continuously through the palette. Loud on purpose — the counterweight to the quiet gradients in this catalogue.",
+        family: "geometric",
+        tags: ["retro", "loud", "cycling"],
+        cost: "light",
+        controls: {
+            ...base,
+            speed: { ...base.speed, default: 0.7 },
+            scale: { ...base.scale, default: 0.55, min: 0.1, max: 2 },
+            vibrancy: { ...base.vibrancy, default: 1.25 },
+            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0.3 },
+            radial: {
+                slot: "a",
+                label: "Radial",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 3,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 1,
+                hint: "Weight of the concentric ring field.",
+            },
+            swirl: {
+                slot: "b",
+                label: "Swirl",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 3,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 1,
+                hint: "Rotation rate of the secondary interference field.",
+            },
+            interference: {
+                slot: "c",
+                label: "Interference",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 0.8,
+                hint: "How strongly the rotating field beats against the rest.",
+            },
+            cycles: {
+                slot: "d",
+                label: "Colour cycles",
+                min: 0.2,
+                max: 4,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 1,
+                hint: "Number of times the palette repeats across the field.",
+            },
+        },
+        colors: {
+            colorA: color("Low", "#120458", "Darkest band of the ramp."),
+            colorB: color("Mid", "#e0245e", "The dominant colour."),
+            colorC: color("High", "#fdd835", "Peaks of the field."),
+        },
+    },
+    pulsar: {
+        name: "Pulsar",
+        tagline: "A breathing globe of particles that leans toward your cursor",
+        description: "A globe of bright points hanging in the dark, breathing, its surface boiling slowly with no seam anywhere while bands of light sweep its latitudes. The pointer is a gentle gravity: the globe drifts that way and stretches into a soft teardrop, brightest on the side being pulled.",
+        family: "particles",
+        tags: ["particles", "3d", "interactive", "pointer", "hero", "space"],
+        cost: "heavy",
+        controls: {
+            ...base,
+            speed: { ...base.speed, default: 0.66, max: 2 },
+            scale: { ...base.scale, default: 0.92, min: 0.5, max: 1.6, hint: "Size of the globe in the frame." },
+            intensity: { ...base.intensity, default: 0.7 },
+            vibrancy: { ...base.vibrancy, default: 1.1 },
+            vignette: { ...base.vignette, default: 0.48 },
+            warp: {
+                ...warp,
+                label: "Pull",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                default: 0.37,
+                hint: "How strongly the globe leans toward your cursor. 0 lets it rest.",
+            },
+            bands: {
+                slot: "a",
+                label: "Bands",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 0.45,
+                hint: "How many streaks of light sweep the latitudes.",
+            },
+            relief: {
+                slot: "b",
+                label: "Relief",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 1.18,
+                hint: "The boiling surface. 0 is a perfect sphere.",
+            },
+            breath: {
+                slot: "c",
+                label: "Breath",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 1.18,
+                hint: "The swell and settle of the whole globe.",
+            },
+            spin: {
+                slot: "d",
+                label: "Spin",
+                min: 0,
+                max: 2,
+                step: 0.01,
+                default: 1.02,
+                hint: "Rotation of the globe under the bands.",
+            },
+        },
+        colors: {
+            colorA: color("Void", "#08130c", "The dark the globe hangs in."),
+            colorB: color("Surface", "#1e7a4a", "The body of the sphere."),
+            colorC: color("Bands", "#d9ffe8", "The sweeping light, and the pulled side."),
+        },
+        presets: [
+            { name: "Verdant", colorA: "#08130c", colorB: "#1e7a4a", colorC: "#d9ffe8" },
+            { name: "Neutron", colorA: "#0b0d18", colorB: "#4a3d8f", colorC: "#c9e8ff" },
+            { name: "Ember", colorA: "#160b08", colorB: "#8f3d1e", colorC: "#ffd9a3" },
+            { name: "Signal", colorA: "#120812", colorB: "#8a2e7a", colorC: "#ffd0f5" },
+        ],
+    },
     glass: {
         name: "Glass",
         tagline: "A refracting, frosted sheet over the layer behind it",
-        description: "A drifting height field read as a surface: its slope bends the layer underneath, spreads the red and blue ends apart, and catches light along the steep ground. Frost blurs along an axis the height rotates, so the sheet grains up instead of banding. Point it at an image, a video, or another shadertown shader.",
+        description: "A frosted, refracting sheet over whatever sits behind it. The layer bends along the slope of the glass, the red and blue ends pull apart, light catches along the steep ground, and the frost grains up instead of banding. Point it at an image, a video, or another shadertown shader.",
         family: "optical",
         tags: ["glass", "refraction", "overlay"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -2139,7 +2478,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     lens: {
         name: "Lens",
         tagline: "Barrel distortion, colour fringing and soft corners",
-        description: "A camera lens rather than a filter: one radial distortion constant per colour channel, so straight lines bow outwards, the fringing is invisible in the middle and worst in the corners, and the corners lose both light and sharpness. Set distortion below zero for the pincushion a long lens gives you instead.",
+        description: "What a real lens does to a picture: straight lines bow outwards, colour fringes appear in the corners and nowhere in the middle, and the corners lose both light and sharpness. Set distortion below zero for the pincushion a long lens gives you instead.",
         family: "optical",
         tags: ["camera", "distortion", "retro"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -2201,7 +2540,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     bloom: {
         name: "Bloom",
         tagline: "Light bleeding out of the bright parts of the layer below",
-        description: "A threshold picks out what is already bright, and a wide spiral spreads it. Each tap is thresholded on its own rather than blurring first, so a dark neighbour never dims a highlight. Streak stretches the spiral sideways into the flare an anamorphic lens puts on every point of light.",
+        description: "Light bleeding out of the bright parts of the layer below, spreading wide and keeping its colour, so a highlight glows rather than merely brightens. A dark neighbour never dims it. Streak stretches the glow sideways into the flare an anamorphic lens puts on every point of light.",
         family: "optical",
         tags: ["glow", "light", "hero"],
         cost: "heavy",
@@ -2263,7 +2602,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     shockwave: {
         name: "Shockwave",
         tagline: "Expanding rings that shove the layer aside as they pass",
-        description: "Three gaussian bands, staggered in phase and spending their force as they grow. The displacement is signed by which side of the crest a pixel is on, so the front compresses ahead of itself and rarefies behind — which is what makes it read as a wave rather than a glowing ring. Turn pointer tracking on and it starts wherever the cursor is.",
+        description: "Rings expanding outward, shoving the layer aside as they pass and spending their force as they grow. The picture compresses ahead of each crest and pulls apart behind it, which is what makes it read as a wave rather than a glowing ring. Turn pointer tracking on and it starts wherever the cursor is.",
         family: "distortion",
         tags: ["impact", "pulse", "interactive"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -2326,7 +2665,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     swirl: {
         name: "Swirl",
         tagline: "A vortex that winds the layer around a point",
-        description: "Rotation that falls off with distance, so the middle turns and the edges stay put. Falloff decides the whole character: near 1 it is a gentle whirlpool, near 4 a tight knot in still water. The colour channels wind by slightly different angles, which smears them along the direction of travel and sells the spin.",
+        description: "A vortex that winds the layer around a point: the middle turns hard, the edges stay put. Near a falloff of one it is a gentle whirlpool, near four a tight knot in still water. The colours wind by slightly different angles, which smears them along the spin.",
         family: "distortion",
         tags: ["vortex", "twist", "interactive"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -2389,7 +2728,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     flow: {
         name: "Flow",
         tagline: "The layer pushed around by a slow, turbulent field",
-        description: "Two noise fields drive a displacement, then curl turns it from a drift into a circulation. Smearing runs along the flow rather than in a circle, so the result looks stirred instead of merely blurred. Turbulence trades broad lazy currents for stringy filaments.",
+        description: "The layer stirred by a slow, turbulent current, smearing along the direction of travel rather than in place, so it looks mixed instead of merely blurred. Turbulence trades broad lazy currents for stringy filaments.",
         family: "distortion",
         tags: ["liquid", "organic", "ambient"],
         cost: "heavy",
@@ -2453,7 +2792,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     duotone: {
         name: "Duotone",
         tagline: "The layer's brightness read through your palette",
-        description: "Luminance is set between a black and a white point, then contrasted about the midpoint, then used to walk the three-stop palette. In that order: a hard contrast applied first would clip before the range is set. Keep colour mixes the original chroma back, for when a busy photograph should not become a flat poster.",
+        description: "The layer's brightness read through your own palette: dark tones take the first colour, highlights the last, and the midtones walk between them. Keep colour mixes the original hues back in, for when a busy photograph should not become a flat poster.",
         family: "image",
         tags: ["colour", "poster", "brand"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -2507,7 +2846,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     edges: {
         name: "Edges",
         tagline: "The layer reduced to its outlines",
-        description: "A Sobel kernel over luminance, with the step widened past a single texel — a sub-texel step would just sample the same texel three times, and widening it is what turns a hairline into a drawn line. Fill decides how much of the original shows under the ink, from a clean line drawing to a traced photograph.",
+        description: "The layer reduced to its outlines — drawn lines on a flat ground, thick enough to read at any size rather than hairlines that break up. Fill decides how much of the original shows under the ink, from a clean line drawing to a traced photograph.",
         family: "image",
         tags: ["outline", "line art", "technical"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -2561,7 +2900,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     mosaic: {
         name: "Mosaic",
         tagline: "The layer rebuilt out of tiles",
-        description: "One tap at each tile's centre, not an average of it — the hard colour is the point, and averaging would only reinvent a blur. Posterising after sampling is what makes it look assembled from a limited set rather than merely coarse. Roundness grows a dot whose size follows the tile's brightness, the way a printed screen does.",
+        description: "The layer rebuilt out of hard-edged tiles, each one a single flat colour from a cut-back palette, so it looks assembled from a limited set rather than merely coarse. Roundness turns the tiles into dots that grow with brightness, the way a printed screen does.",
         family: "image",
         tags: ["pixelate", "print", "retro"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -2615,7 +2954,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     reveal: {
         name: "Reveal",
         tagline: "The layer wiped in over a colour ground",
-        description: "A threshold cutting through a field: noise dissolves, a rotated ramp wipes, and shape slides between the two. At speed 0 the progress control is a scrubber you can drive from your own code — bind it to a scroll position or a load event. Above 0 it loops on its own, which is what makes it worth looking at on a card.",
+        description: "The layer wiped in over a flat colour ground: noise dissolves it in speckles, a rotated ramp wipes it in a line, and shape slides between the two. At speed 0 the progress control is a scrubber you can drive from your own code; above 0 it loops on its own.",
         family: "transition",
         tags: ["wipe", "dissolve", "entrance"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -2679,7 +3018,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     "neon-sign": {
         name: "Neon Sign",
         tagline: "The layer's edges bent into glass tube and lit",
-        description: "The tube is the level set where the layer's luma crosses a threshold, which is why this works on anything but sings on text: a glyph's boundary is one clean crossing, and the band around it becomes the glass. The halo is the blurred luma itself rather than a blur of the tube, so the light lands where the ink is. Hand it `source={{ text: \"OPEN\" }}` and it is a sign.",
+        description: "The layer's edges bent into glass tube and lit, with the halo landing where the ink is. It works on anything but sings on text, because a letter's boundary is one clean line and the band around it becomes the glass. Hand it `source={{ text: \"OPEN\" }}` and it is a sign.",
         family: "optical",
         tags: ["text", "neon", "dark", "sign"],
         cost: "heavy",
@@ -2743,7 +3082,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     ascii: {
         name: "ASCII",
         tagline: "The layer redrawn as a density ramp of glyphs",
-        description: "Ten 3×5 bitmaps packed into ten integers, ordered by how much ink they carry, so brightness picks the character the way the classic ramp does. The font ships inside the shader — a vendored copy runs with no assets at all. Colorize slides between pure phosphor and the source's own colour pushed through the glyphs; scan adds the monitor the font implies.",
+        description: "The layer redrawn as a grid of glyphs, dense characters where the picture is bright and open ones where it is dark. The font travels inside the shader, so it runs with no assets at all. Colorize slides between pure phosphor and the source's own colour pushed through the glyphs; scan adds the monitor the font implies.",
         family: "image",
         tags: ["text", "retro", "terminal"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -2799,7 +3138,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     shatter: {
         name: "Shatter",
         tagline: "The layer breaks into shards that fly from the pointer",
-        description: "A voronoi partition where the shards hold still and their contents move: each cell samples the source from a position swung back toward the impact point, so the picture inside every shard slides and rotates away from the cursor while the crack pattern stays fixed. At speed 0 the progress slider is a scrubber, same contract as reveal — bind it to a scroll position and the break happens under the reader's thumb.",
+        description: "The layer breaks into shards that fly away from the pointer. The crack pattern holds still while the picture inside each shard slides and turns outward. At speed 0 the progress slider is a scrubber, the same contract as reveal, so the break can happen under the reader's thumb.",
         family: "distortion",
         tags: ["interactive", "pointer", "text", "transition"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -2863,7 +3202,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     melt: {
         name: "Melt",
         tagline: "The layer runs downhill, and the pointer is the heat",
-        description: "A melting pixel shows what used to be above it, so the whole effect is sampling the source at a smaller y. How much smaller is a column-coherent noise — coherent down each column, varied across them — which is what makes drips instead of fog. The streak pass keeps the brightest tap of the climb, the way a run of paint carries its highlight down with it. The pointer is a blowtorch: hold it on text and the text sags.",
+        description: "The layer runs downhill in drips, each column dragging its own streak of colour down and carrying the highlight at the front of the run. The pointer is the heat: hold it on text and the text sags.",
         family: "distortion",
         tags: ["interactive", "pointer", "text"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -2927,7 +3266,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     "pixel-sea": {
         name: "Pixel Sea",
         tagline: "A 16-bit sea: dithered sky, low sun, dashes of light",
-        description: "A proper seascape on a virtual pixel grid: horizon in the upper third, perspective rows that pack tighter as they recede, and the sun's reflection breaking into dashes on the swell. The clock ticks at a sprite-sheet rate, so nothing ever moves by less than a whole cell.",
+        description: "A 16-bit seascape: a dithered sky over a low sun, rows of water packing tighter as they recede, and the sun's reflection breaking into dashes on the swell. Nothing ever moves by less than a whole pixel.",
         family: "pixel",
         tags: ["pixel", "retro", "water", "game"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -2988,7 +3327,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     "pixel-clouds": {
         name: "Pixel Clouds",
         tagline: "Sprite clouds on a flat blue sky",
-        description: "Each cloud is a drawn sprite, not a thresholded noise field: a flat-bottomed slab with hashed bumps stacked on top, the way a pixel artist builds one. Rows drift at their own whole-cell speeds, and one rule does the shading — open air below a cell means it takes the shade stop.",
+        description: "Flat-bottomed pixel clouds drifting across a plain blue sky, each one a stack of round bumps of uneven size with a hard shade line underneath, the way a pixel artist builds one. The rows drift at their own speeds, a whole cell at a time.",
         family: "pixel",
         tags: ["pixel", "retro", "sky", "calm"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -3050,8 +3389,8 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     "pixel-fire": {
         name: "Pixel Fire",
-        tagline: "The Doom fire, computed without its memory",
-        description: "The 1996 original was a feedback automaton; one pass has no history, so this reproduces its statistics instead: a heat ramp from the bottom edge, turbulence that grows with height so the slab shreds into tongues, and per-cell decay jitter re-rolled at a low frame rate — the flicker that made the automaton read as fire.",
+        tagline: "The Doom fire, tongue by tongue",
+        description: "The Doom fire: a bed of orange along the bottom edge shredding upward into tongues and sparks, and going black before the top. Every cell is one of a dozen flat colours, and the whole slab flickers on a low frame rate.",
         family: "pixel",
         tags: ["pixel", "retro", "fire", "dark"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -3112,7 +3451,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     "pixel-rain": {
         name: "Pixel Rain",
         tagline: "Rain over a sleeping skyline, one lit window at a time",
-        description: "Two ranks of hashed buildings under three flat bands of night sky, a sparse lattice of windows whose lights toggle rarely, and per-column raindrops that fall by whole cells per tick onto a shimmering street. Nothing is blended; every pixel is one of a dozen stops.",
+        description: "Rain over a sleeping pixel skyline: two ranks of buildings under flat bands of night sky and a moon, a sparse grid of windows whose lights toggle rarely, and drops falling a whole cell at a time onto a shimmering street. Nothing is blended; every pixel is one of a dozen stops.",
         family: "pixel",
         tags: ["pixel", "retro", "rain", "dark", "city"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -3172,7 +3511,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     lagoon: {
         name: "Lagoon",
         tagline: "An atoll from above: sand ring, shallows, the reef wall",
-        description: "Depth does the colouring, the way light actually dies in water: red first, so the shallows are sand seen through cyan and the open sea keeps only blue. The ring wobbles per angle and opens channels, surf stacks against the reef, and coral heads mottle the lagoon floor.",
+        description: "An atoll from above: a sand ring around a pale turquoise lagoon, dropping to deep blue outside the reef. Depth does the colouring the way light actually dies in water, so the shallows read as sand seen through cyan and the open sea keeps only blue. Surf stacks against the reef and coral mottles the floor.",
         family: "scene",
         tags: ["island", "water", "tropical", "ambient"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -3234,7 +3573,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     island: {
         name: "Island",
         tagline: "Sea to the horizon, a low sun, and land in the haze",
-        description: "No marching: the sea is a gradient, the island a one-dimensional ridge thresholded against height, and the sun's glitter an anisotropic sparkle — horizontally tight, vertically smeared, widening toward the camera — under a gaussian column below the sun. The pointer leans the whole view.",
+        description: "Sea to the horizon under a low sun, a glitter path running toward the camera, and land sitting in the haze. The glitter is tight across and smeared down, and it widens as it comes nearer. The pointer leans the whole view.",
         family: "scene",
         tags: ["island", "hero", "horizon", "pointer"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -3295,7 +3634,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     shore: {
         name: "Shore",
         tagline: "The swash zone from above: run-up, foam, wet sand",
-        description: "One animated line drives everything: the waterline breathes on a cosine and is ragged from noise, wave fronts arrive as sharp crests with decaying wakes, and the wet sand is a second envelope lagging behind the water — darkest at the edge, drying to nothing — which is as close to memory as one pass gets.",
+        description: "The swash zone from above: bands of turquoise water running up over pale sand, foam along each front, and wet sand that is darkest at the waterline and dries to nothing behind it. The waterline breathes in and out and stays ragged.",
         family: "scene",
         tags: ["island", "water", "calm", "ambient"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -3357,7 +3696,7 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     caldera: {
         name: "Caldera",
         tagline: "A volcanic island at night, lit by its own veins",
-        description: "The island is fbm minus a falloff, but the light source is inside it: the valleys of a ridged field read as lava where they run downhill from the crater, the crater itself is a breathing pool, and everything else — basalt, sea, the drifting embers — is lit by that glow.",
+        description: "A volcanic island at night, lit by its own lava. Glowing veins run downhill from a breathing crater pool, and the basalt, the sea and the drifting embers take their only light from that glow.",
         family: "scene",
         tags: ["island", "dark", "hero", "fire"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -3420,8 +3759,8 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     meadow: {
         name: "Meadow",
-        tagline: "A flower field in parallax layers, blurred like a lens",
-        description: "A silhouette field at golden hour: four rows of grass and flowers, each one flat tone against the glowing sky, the nearest nearly ink. Rows slide by their own parallax under the pointer, and rows off the focal plane widen their antialiasing band — which at header size reads as lens blur.",
+        tagline: "A flower field in silhouette at golden hour",
+        description: "A flower field at golden hour, drawn as flat silhouettes in rows — the nearest almost ink, the farthest almost sky. The rows slide past each other under the pointer, and the ones off the focal plane soften as if the lens missed them.",
         family: "scene",
         tags: ["hero", "flowers", "soft", "pointer"],
         cost: "medium",
@@ -3481,8 +3820,8 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     blossom: {
         name: "Blossom",
-        tagline: "One flower, drawn large enough to be the header",
-        description: "Two rings of rose-curve petals, the inner rotated half a sector and darkened, around a true phyllotaxis seed head: florets at the golden angle, each given a domed normal so the head shades like geometry without a ray marched. The whole flower breathes and leans.",
+        tagline: "One flower, drawn large",
+        description: "One flower, drawn large: two rings of pale petals, the inner ring turned and darkened, around a dark seed head packed in the tight spiral a real flower grows. The whole flower breathes and leans.",
         family: "scene",
         tags: ["hero", "flowers", "centerpiece", "calm"],
         cost: "light",
@@ -3542,8 +3881,8 @@ export const shaderRegistry = {
     },
     hills: {
         name: "Hills",
-        tagline: "Rolling grassland marched as a heightfield",
-        description: "The march reads four octaves of terrain and the shading reads six — nobody can see the difference, and it halves the loop. Three lights do the rest: a wrapped sun, a hemispheric sky fill, and a warm bounce from the opposite side, with sun-tinted fog folding the far hills into the sky.",
+        tagline: "Rolling grassland under a low sun",
+        description: "Rolling green grassland under a wide sky, lit by a low sun with a cool fill from above and a warm bounce off the far side. Sun-tinted fog folds the distant hills into the sky.",
         family: "scene",
         tags: ["hero", "3d", "raymarching", "pointer"],
         cost: "heavy",