Enter a mathematical expression in the box below:
z
Below is the string the program receives from the math input box above, in LaTeX:
A lexer tokenizes the strings, and a parser generates an abstract syntax tree (AST) representing the expression. From the AST, the program rewrites the tree into a GLSL function that can be run in a WebGL fragment shader:
Finally, WebGL uses the generated shader to display the correct colors to an interactive HTML5 canvas element: