SwiftUI Metal shader
Mycelium
A quarter of a million agents, each smelling the trail ahead-left, ahead and ahead-right, turning toward the strongest and laying down more of it. Nothing draws the network — it is what the agents agree on. Drag to bend it. Exports a self-contained MetalKit renderer.
SwiftUI
How it works
Mycelium is a real [[stitchable]] Metal shader, not a video or an image. It runs as a SwiftUI .colorEffect, so it paints any view you attach it to. You shape it with sliders in a live preview, then export the .metal file and the SwiftUI code that uses it. No MSL to write.
17 settings you can tune
- Speed
- Sense
- Angle
- Turn
- Flow
- Keep
- Diffuse
- Deposit
- Exposure
- Bloom
- Glow
- Cutoff
- Trail
- Ground
- Low
- Mid
- High
