Making the Starfield app
Armed with our newfound knowledge of GLSL, let's build a starfield screensaver, that is, a non-interactive demonstration of stars fleeing from the center of the screen to its sides, under the influence of an imaginary centrifugal force or something.
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Conceptually, each star goes through the same action sequence:
- It spawns randomly near the center of the screen.
- The star moves in the opposite direction from the screen center until it's no longer visible.
- Then it respawns, going back to square one.
We will also make stars accelerate ...
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