# shader performance

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## From Rays to Meshes: Building Vercel's Prism with vgpu

DevFeed: [From Rays to Meshes: Building Vercel's Prism with vgpu](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/from-rays-to-meshes-building-vercel-s-prism-with-vgpu-4334.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tympanus.net/codrops/2026/09/03/from-rays-to-meshes-building-vercels-prism-with-vgpu/>)

Author: Matias Gonzalez Fernandez

Published: 2026-09-03T16:01:06Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Codrops](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codrops.md>)

Topics: [GPU](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gpu.md>)

Tags: [3d](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/3d.md>), [3d-graphics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/3d-graphics.md>), [adaptive-rendering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/adaptive-rendering.md>), [articles](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/articles.md>), [creative-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/creative-coding.md>), [glass](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/glass.md>), [glass-shader](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/glass-shader.md>), [glsl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/glsl.md>), [glsl-shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/glsl-shaders.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [gpu-optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu-optimization.md>), [gpu-rendering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu-rendering.md>), [interactive-web-graphics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/interactive-web-graphics.md>), [javascript-graphics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript-graphics.md>), [light-refraction](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/light-refraction.md>), [mesh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mesh.md>), [prism-shader](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/prism-shader.md>), [ray-tracing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ray-tracing.md>), [real-time-rendering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time-rendering.md>), [real-time-shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time-shaders.md>), [shader-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shader-performance.md>), [shader-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shader-programming.md>), [shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shaders.md>), [vercel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vercel.md>), [vercel-prism](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vercel-prism.md>), [vercel-vgpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vercel-vgpu.md>), [vgpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vgpu.md>), [web-graphics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-graphics.md>), [web-shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-shaders.md>), [webgl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webgl.md>), [webgl-shaders](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/webgl-shaders.md>)

### AI overview

A tutorial on creating Vercel's prism visual with vgpu shaders. It replaces costly ray-based light simulation with refracted paths connected into a 3D mesh, then adds an environment-mapped glass shader, bloom, and particles.

### Source excerpt

A look at how Vercel's vgpu creates a performant prism effect using shaders, geometry, glass, and adaptive rendering.