Windows Terminal Shaders

A collection of HLSL shaders for Windows Terminal. These shaders create beautiful visual effects to enhance your terminal experience.

Fractal Shader

The featured shader creates a Mandelbrot fractal visualization with smooth coloring and animation. This shader demonstrates how to:

• Convert GLSL shader code to HLSL for Windows Terminal
• Implement HSV to RGB color space conversion
• Create dynamic zooming and movement
• Apply proper color correction with sRGB conversion

Credits

This project was written by Claude and Scott. Mark Russinovich was also there. (100% THE IDEA MAN)

Citations

The code in this project contains components from the following sources:

• GLSL to HLSL adapters from patriksvensson/machine
• HSV to RGB conversion from blueset/project-lyricova
• sRGB color correction from nmz (@stormoid) via multiple sources:
  • jseaton/glow
  • colin3dmax/CocosCreator
  • blueset/project-lyricova
• Additional shader structure from Hammster/windows-terminal-shaders

License

This project is licensed under the WTFPL (Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License)

Usage

1. Save the shader file (.hlsl) to a location on your computer
2. Open Windows Terminal settings.json
3. Add the shader to your profile:

{
    "profiles": {
        "defaults": {},
        "list": [
            {
                "name": "Windows PowerShell",
                "experimental.pixelShaderPath": "path/to/fractal.hlsl"
            }
        ]
    }
}