Animated starfield effect designed for a previous version of the Ingenuity website
The starfield is calculated in realtime allowing it to be panned around using the mouse pointer. The nebulae are based on the kaliset fractal.
The effect is created using a GLSL Shader, which is a script that runs directly on the computer’s graphics hardware (GPU). A JavaScript library called p5.js is used to load and manage the shader.
The shader is based on “Simplicity Galaxy” by CBS used under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.