Animated Heat Distortion Effects with WebGL

A tutorial on how to use fragment shaders in WebGL to create an animated heat haze distortion effect on images and text. By Lucas Bebber.

Installing

First, you'll need node.js, which includes npm. Then, open the project folder on the terminal and run:

$ npm i

$ npm run build

$ npm run watch

$ npm run start

Then open http://localhost:8080/demo.

$ npm run start-dev

...and when you're done...

$ npm run stop-dev

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