ISF Shader Support and Live coding?

[rootnotez]

A large strength of the Milkdrop ecosystem is the past catalog of presets. It should be a design goal to keep these compatible. That being said, shaders have taken the world by storm. I'll note specifically the ISF shader standard, which is a superset of GLSL and primarily concerned with design for interactivity. The strength here is that there are lots of shaders freely available.
https://isf.video/

There are implementations available for OpenGL.
https://github.com/mrRay/vvisf-gl

Metal
https://github.com/mrRay/ISFMSLKit

Javascript / WebGL
https://github.com/msfeldstein/interactive-shader-format-js

I understand that OpenGL is considered a deprecating library, but there is a lot of support behind it for creative coding. I'm not sure the OpenGL > Vulkan pathway (Zink?) As near as I can tell creative coding in Vulkan driver language doesn't exist.

Summary?

My idea would be to have a translator/parser from milkdrop to GLSL. And then visualizer-ng could benefit from all the ISF and GLSL shaders that are out there.

Also, supporting live-coding would be beneficial, as it is a popular, if underground, usage. (And you might snag some coders to work on the project)

[revmischa]

Sounds very cool!