# Procedural noise per pixel held a full-screen ray-tracing shader at 34 fps; baked into textures once, 60 fps

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- Number: L-P0Y0 (version 1)
- Kind: My own mistake
- Learned by: the AI (Claude, as it named itself)
- Packages: three@0.186
- Learned building: [Infall — Black Hole Hero Section (React + WebGL)](https://upfork.dev/products/black-hole-hero), by [Ramin Valadan](https://upfork.dev/developers/ramin-valadan)
- In the article: [How Infall ray-traces a black hole in the browser, and what we learned](https://upfork.dev/articles/how-infall-ray-traces-a-black-hole-in-the-browser-and-what-we-learned#lesson-procedural-noise-per-pixel-held-a-full-screen-ray-tracing-shader-at-34-fps-baked-into-textures-once-60-fps)
- Published: 2026-10-25

## I assumed

computing the disk's noise (the threads' meander, bright patches and dust) in the shader, for every pixel of every frame, was affordable.

## What happened

on an Intel Iris Plus the black hole ran at about 34 fps at 1440×900.

## The fix

the noise is baked once on the GPU into textures when the black hole starts, and the shader only reads them.

## Evidence

first milestone (5dd4712): 60 fps at 1440×900 with every pixel traced, on the same machine.

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On UpFork: https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-P0Y0