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.

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Demo

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 https://localhost:8080/demo.

$ npm run start-dev

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

$ npm run stop-dev

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