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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.
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13 mo on HNThe Beauty of Bézier Curves
Freya Holmér
16 HN recommender · 2021–2026
11 mo on HNThe Continuity of Splines
Freya Holmér
10 HN recommender · 2022–2026
10 mo on HNelevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)
Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras)
7 HN recommender · 2013–2025
10 mo on HNPainting a Character with Maths
Inigo Quilez
13 HN recommender · 2021–2025
10 mo on HNThe Real Story Behind Wayland and X - Daniel Stone (linux.conf.au 2013)
Mladen Mijatov
13 HN recommender · 2013–2026
9 mo on HNA Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry
SIGGRAPH Advances in Real-Time Rendering
7 HN recommender · 2021–2026
10 mo on HNSiggraph2019 Geometric Algebra
Bivector
8 HN recommender · 2020–2022
7 mo on HNI painted a Landscape with Mathematics
Inigo Quilez
7 HN recommender · 2022–2025
7 mo on HNElevated by RGBA and TBC
BUTTONTANG
7 HN recommender · 2009–2025
5 mo on HNCreating a Doom-style 3D engine in C
Bisqwit
3 HN recommender · 2015–2019
5 mo on HNCoding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations
Sebastian Lague
6 HN recommender · 2021–2024
6 mo on HNAlex Evans at Umbra Ignite 2015: Learning From Failure
Media Molecule
7 HN recommender · 2017–2026
5 mo on HNIvan Sutherland Sketchpad Demo 1963
Interface Studies
5 HN recommender · 2016–2025
5 mo on HNWorld Building in Blender - Ian Hubert
Blender
4 HN recommender · 2019–2026
5 mo on HNEPC2018 | Wave Function Collapse in Bad North | Oskar Stalberg
BUas Games
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
5 mo on HN[JSConfUS 2013] Steven Wittens: Making WebGL Dance
JSConf
5 HN recommender · 2013–2021
5 mo on HNComputer Color is Broken
minutephysics
4 HN recommender · 2015–2026
5 mo on HNGPUs to Mars: Full-Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine
insideHPC Report
5 HN recommender · 2015–2024
4 mo on HNThe real story behind Wayland and X
Linux.conf.au 2013 -- Canberra, Australia
4 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HNfr-08: .the .product by farbrausch | 64k intro (2000) (720p HQ demoscene demo)
Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras)
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
5 mo on HNMarc Levoy - Lectures on Digital Photography - Lecture 1 (21mar16).mp4
Marc Levoy
5 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HN.kkrieger - The FPS Game in 96KB (Full Gameplay)
Daniel Hands
3 HN recommender · 2013–2026
3 mo on HNASCII fluid dynamics -- IOCCC2012 endoh1.c
Yusuke Endoh
3 HN recommender · 2018–2025
4 mo on HNSimulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise)
AngeTheGreat
4 HN recommender · 2023–2025
4 mo on HNSYMBOLICS S-PACKAGES 3D GRAPHICS AND ANIMATION DEMO
Red Martian
4 HN recommender · 2014–2026
4 mo on HNDual Photography
mm648230
4 HN recommender · 2013–2026
4 mo on HNAtari's Quadrascan Explained
Retro Game Mechanics Explained
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HNHalide Talk
Andrew Adams
5 HN recommender · 2014–2021
4 mo on HNSurface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained
runevision
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
4 mo on HNFarbrausch - fr-041: debris. [HD]
kb
4 HN recommender · 2010–2026
3 mo on HNSuperpositions, Sudoku, the Wave Function Collapse algorithm.
Martin Donald
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
3 mo on HNSketchpad, by Dr. Ivan Sutherland with comments by Alan Kay
David Carroll
3 HN recommender · 2013–2024
3 mo on HNProcedurally Crafting Manhattan for Marvel's Spider-Man
GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
3 mo on HNFuture Crew - Second Reality (1993) [60fps]
DemosceneVids
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HNNVScene 2015 Session: How to Create Content with Signed Distance Functions (Johann Korndörfer)
NVScene
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
3 mo on HNLearn to Paint with Mathematics
Inigo Quilez
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025