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Creative coding & generative art Videos Recommended on Hacker News (63)

Creative coding & generative art is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 63 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 184 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Creative coding: generative art, Processing, shaders art, algorithmic art, live coding music and visuals, interactive installations, glitch art, computational creativity.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on 8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box: “I recommend this talk to anyone who is interested in the details and history of working on limited colour palette games!” — an HN commenter, 2024.

17 mo on HN

8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box

GDC Festival of Gaming
13 HN recommender · 2018–2026
10 mo on HN

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

Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras)
7 HN recommender · 2013–2025
10 mo on HN

Painting a Character with Maths

Inigo Quilez
13 HN recommender · 2021–2025
6 mo on HN

The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie

NDC Conferences
6 HN recommender · 2020–2024
6 mo on HN

Functional Composition - Chris Ford

ClojureTV
6 HN recommender · 2013–2023
7 mo on HN

I painted a Landscape with Mathematics

Inigo Quilez
7 HN recommender · 2022–2025
7 mo on HN

Elevated by RGBA and TBC

BUTTONTANG
7 HN recommender · 2009–2025
6 mo on HN

Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)

XOXO Festival
7 HN recommender · 2015–2024
6 mo on HN

RiftSketch: Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.js

Brian Peiris
5 HN recommender · 2014–2020
6 mo on HN

Moleman 2 - Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (2012)

Vakondok (Moleman)
6 HN recommender · 2015–2023
5 mo on HN

Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations

Sebastian Lague
6 HN recommender · 2021–2024
6 mo on HN

Robust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (full version)

Dave Ackley
3 HN recommender · 2015–2023
5 mo on HN

ORCA Sequencer Intro (Experimental Livecoding!)

Allieway Audio
4 HN recommender · 2019–2025
4 mo on HN

K Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016
4 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HN

Intrinsic Gravity by Still

TiXL
3 HN recommender · 2019–2026
4 mo on HN

SmoothLifeL

Tim Hutton
4 HN recommender · 2012–2022
3 mo on HN

ASCII fluid dynamics -- IOCCC2012 endoh1.c

Yusuke Endoh
3 HN recommender · 2018–2025
4 mo on HN

Herbert Wolverson - Procedural Map Generation Techniques

Roguelike Celebration
4 HN recommender · 2021–2022
4 mo on HN

Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs

Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)
4 HN recommender · 2014–2023
4 mo on HN

Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained

runevision
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HN

Anagrams, but where you can break apart letters: "Anagraphs"

suckerpinch
3 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

Chaos Theory - Awesome 64k Intro! [720p HD]

Lounger
3 HN recommender · 2011–2024
3 mo on HN

How I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks

3Blue1Brown
3 HN recommender · 2024–2026
3 mo on HN

How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound

Jellybean Fenderson
3 HN recommender · 2017–2022
3 mo on HN

NVScene 2015 Session: How to Create Content with Signed Distance Functions (Johann Korndörfer)

NVScene
3 HN recommender · 2017–2018
3 mo on HN

Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014

O'Reilly
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HN

Learn to Paint with Mathematics

Inigo Quilez
3 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HN

Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi

Sam Aaron
3 HN recommender · 2017–2023
3 mo on HN

Sam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi

Sam Aaron
3 HN recommender · 2017–2020
2 mo on HN

Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018

GOTO Conferences
2 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

Farbrausch & Neuro - Masagin (HD Stereo)

Leonard Ritter
3 HN recommender · 2010–2023
2 mo on HN

Hartverdrahtet - Akronyme Analogiker | 4k Revision 2012

Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras)
2 HN recommender · 2012–2024
2 mo on HN

LIVE Coding "Happy Jumping"

Inigo Quilez
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
2 mo on HN

Generative AI for Krita - With ControlNet

Acly
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HN

Marble Marcher - A Fractal Physics Game

CodeParade
2 HN recommender · 2020–2024
2 mo on HN

Karl Sims - Evolved Virtual Creatures, Evolution Simulation, 1994

MediaArtTube
2 HN recommender · 2014–2022