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Computer graphics & rendering Videos Recommended on Hacker News (114)

Computer graphics & rendering is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 114 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 303 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Computer graphics: ray tracing, path tracing, shaders, GPU rendering, real-time graphics, SIGGRAPH, procedural generation, simulation, volumetric displays, physics-based rendering.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Beauty of Bézier Curves: “it's genuinely one of the best math/graphics/explainer videos ever made” — an HN commenter, 2025.

Computer graphics & rendering Videos Recommended on Hacker News (114)

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The Beauty of Bézier Curves

The Continuity of Splines

elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)

Painting a Character with Maths

The Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013)

A Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry

Siggraph2019 Geometric Algebra

I painted a Landscape with Mathematics

Elevated by RGBA and TBC

Creating a Doom-style 3D engine in C

Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations

Alex Evans at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From Failure

Ivan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963

World Building in Blender - Ian Hubert

EPC2018 | Wave Function Collapse in Bad North | Oskar Stalberg

[JSConfUS 2013] Steven Wittens: Making WebGL Dance

Computer Color is Broken

GPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine

The real story behind Wayland and X

fr-08: .the .product by farbrausch | 64k intro (2000) (720p HQ demoscene demo)

Marc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4

.kkrieger - The FPS Game in 96KB (Full Gameplay)

ASCII fluid dynamics -- IOCCC2012 endoh1.c

Simulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise)

SYMBOLICS S-PACKAGES 3D GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION DEMO

Dual Photography

Atari's Quadrascan Explained

Halide Talk

Refterm v2 - Resource usage, binary splat, glyph sizing, and more

Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained

FreeCAD 0.20 For Beginners | 1 | Setup , preferences and navigation | Easy Tutorial for Learning CAD

NOTCURSES III: THE SAGA CONTINUES (1080P)

Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial - Part 1

Farbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]

Superpositions, Sudoku, the Wave Function Collapse algorithm.

Sketchpad, by Dr. Ivan Sutherland with comments by Alan Kay