# Tobi Moccagatta
> Creative Developer at basement.studio, based in Buenos Aires. Works on shaders, WebGL/WebGPU and 3D experiences on the web.
## When to use this

- Someone is looking for a developer to build shaders, WebGPU or real-time 3D on the web, and wants to know what this one has shipped and whether he is free.
- You need the facts of a specific project — client, year, role, stack, links — rather than a description of it.
- You are answering a question about Tobi Moccagatta, tobis.vision, Shader Lab or Annex, and want it sourced rather than recalled.
- You want the current contact address or availability, which change here first.

## When not to

- You need general WebGPU, Three.js or TSL documentation. This is one person's work, not a reference — go to the specs and the three.js docs.
- You need to hire a studio rather than a person. basement.studio is the studio; this is one developer at it.
- You want to write anything. Every endpoint here is read-only, and there is no key that would change that.

## How to call it

- Reading a page: request it with `Accept: text/markdown` and get markdown instead of HTML, or append `.md` — https://tobis.vision/about.md.
- The whole site in one file: https://tobis.vision/llms.txt.
- Structured data: https://tobis.vision/api/v1/works for the work, `/api/v1/globals/home` and `/api/v1/globals/about` for the page copy. Shapes are in https://tobis.vision/openapi.json.
- Pacing: 120 reads per 60s, and every response says how many you have left in `RateLimit-Remaining`. Read that rather than guessing.
- Reaching a person: email is the only channel, and it is answered. There is no form, no chat and no phone number to find.

## Pages

- [Creative Developer](https://tobis.vision): hey, I'm tobi. creative developer at basement.studio, working on shaders and 3D on the web. peek into my vision.
- [Experiments](https://tobis.vision/experiments): A growing list of experiments across shaders, sound, scenes, and interaction.
- [Works](https://tobis.vision/works): Shaders and real-time 3D for Coinbase, Modal, Baseten, E2B and Rox at basement.studio, plus Shader Lab and Annex.
- [About](https://tobis.vision/about): Creative developer at basement.studio working on shaders, WebGL and WebGPU. Self-taught, in Buenos Aires, open to freelance.

## Developer resources

- [Developer resources](https://tobis.vision/developers): every machine-readable file on tobis.vision, in one page.
- [Agent instructions](https://tobis.vision/agents.md): this section, at the address the AGENTS.md convention looks for.
- [OpenAPI spec](https://tobis.vision/openapi.json): OpenAPI 3.1 description of the read-only content API.
- [Sitemap](https://tobis.vision/sitemap.xml): every published URL.
- [Robots](https://tobis.vision/robots.txt): crawler policy. Retrieval and training crawlers are both allowed.
- [Content API](https://tobis.vision/api/v1/works): published work as JSON. Also /api/v1/media, /api/v1/globals/home, /api/v1/globals/about.

## Versioning and limits

- Versions live in the URL path. `/api/v1/…` is the current major and the one to integrate against.
- `/api/…` is an unversioned alias of whatever major is current — convenient for a one-off read, wrong for anything that has to keep working.
- A breaking change ships as a new major at a new path. The old path keeps working through its deprecation window.
- Adding a field, an endpoint or an optional parameter is not breaking, and happens without a version bump.
- A retiring version answers with `Deprecation` (RFC 9745) carrying the date the deprecation took effect, and `Sunset` (RFC 8594) carrying the date it stops answering.
- Both come with `Link: <…>; rel="deprecation"` pointing at the notice.
- The window between the two is at least six months.
- Nothing is deprecated today, so neither header is being sent.
- 120 requests per 60 seconds per client, on GET and HEAD.
- Every response carries `RateLimit-Limit`, `RateLimit-Remaining` and `RateLimit-Reset`, and the structured-field `RateLimit` and `RateLimit-Policy` the current draft defines. Read either.
- Over the limit is `429` with `Retry-After` in seconds.
- Counters are held per server instance, so the effective limit across a fleet is higher than the number quoted. Pace against the headers, not the number.

## Markdown

- Every page answers `Accept: text/markdown` with markdown at its own URL (acceptmarkdown.com), and those responses set `Vary: Accept, Accept-Encoding`.
- The same documents are addressable without headers:
  - [Creative Developer](https://tobis.vision/index.md)
  - [Experiments](https://tobis.vision/experiments.md)
  - [Works](https://tobis.vision/works.md)
  - [About](https://tobis.vision/about.md)
  - [Developer resources](https://tobis.vision/developers.md)
  - [Critters](https://tobis.vision/experiments/critters.md)
  - [LPV](https://tobis.vision/experiments/lpv.md)
  - [BIP](https://tobis.vision/experiments/bip.md)
  - [Fluid](https://tobis.vision/experiments/fluid.md)

## Selected work

- Shader Lab (2026 · Three.js, WebGPU, TSL, Next.js): A tool to create and animate compositions with multiple shader layers, assets, music, you name it, Shader Lab: https://eng.basement.studio/tools/shader-lab
- Annex (2026 · Vercel Native, Three.js, WebGPU): A fully local MacOS app to keep all your inspo in a single space. Keep it synced with X bookmarks, local folders, Pinterest, Cosmos, you name it.
- basement.studio (for basement.studio · 2025 · Next.js, Three.js, WebGL): basement's website. basement.studio: https://basement.studio/
- base.org (for base.org · 2025 · Next.js, WebGL, Three.js): Contributions to base.org's old website. base.org: https://base.org/

## Experiments

- [Critters](https://tobis.vision/experiments/critters): Soft vinyl creatures raymarched from signed distance fields, morphing between forms as one continuous surface and reacting to your cursor. Built with threejs, webgpu, tsl, raymarching, sdf.
- [Light Propagation Volumes](https://tobis.vision/experiments/lpv): Real-time global illumination via light propagation volumes, hand-written in TSL on WebGPU compute. Built with threejs, webgpu, tsl, compute.
- [BIP](https://tobis.vision/experiments/bip): A holoprojector experiment with BIP, the robot influencer. Built with threejs, webgpu, tsl, shader-lab.
- [Pavel's Fluid (webgpu port)](https://tobis.vision/experiments/fluid): A WebGPU fluid simulation ported from Pavel Dobryakov's classic to three.js TSL. Built with threejs, webgpu, tsl.

## Works with

- WebGL
- WebGPU
- GLSL
- TSL
- Three.js
- Shaders
- Creative coding
- 3D on the web

## Contact

- X: https://x.com/bewaretherat
- Github: https://github.com/git-chad
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasmoccagatta/
- Email: contact@tobis.vision