Creating shaders programmatically

Hi,

I am currently looking whether and how Unity can compile shaders on the fly.
The use-case for this is an interactive, real-time signed distance function builder.
Alternatively, you could build something like ShaderToy in Unity.

How would I implement that? I only found samples where the shader was loaded from a file, and the C# Shader class has no public constructor.

Whether the shader language is GLSL, HLSL or a graph doesn't matter that much as long as it is mostly completely customizable. I'd prefer a written language over a graph for easier function import from other sources.

As a hacky way, it is maybe possible to create assets at runtime, and then load them?

Thanks a lot,
Antonio

PS: I am posting this into "Getting Started", because I try to get started on my project . It probably isn't really a beginner question.

 

PPS: I know you could theoretically create a static shader for every instruction, and then execute those instructions one by one on a series of framebuffers, but I'd like it to be performant .