RenderMonkey is described as 'Shader editor with real-time preview, debugging, and sample effects. Supports DirectX and OpenGL, collaborative workflows, and artist-friendly parameters' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to RenderMonkey for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Linux, Self-Hosted and Google Chrome apps. The best RenderMonkey alternative is SHADERed, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RenderMonkey are Shadertoy, The Book of Shaders, GSN Composer and Shdr.
Synthclipse is a GLSL shader prototyping tool. It makes possible to fast develop all kinds of shaders: Fragment (FS), Vertex (VS), Geometry (GS), Tessellation (TS) and Compute (CS). Shader development can be done using compatible with Fragmentarium and Shadertoy (but limited to...
Synthclipse is the most popular Mac alternative to RenderMonkey.
Rayground is a framework for rapid prototyping of algorithms based on the ray tracing paradigm. Its main goal is to help develop, test and share self contained modules that showcase a particular method or technique.
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