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.
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17 mo on HN8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
10 mo on HNelevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo)
10 mo on HNPainting a Character with Maths
6 mo on HNThe Art of Code - Dylan Beattie
6 mo on HNFunctional Composition - Chris Ford
7 mo on HNI painted a Landscape with Mathematics
7 mo on HNElevated by RGBA and TBC
6 mo on HNDarius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)
6 mo on HNRiftSketch: Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.js
6 mo on HNMoleman 2 - Demoscene - The Art of the Algorithms (2012)
5 mo on HNCoding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations
6 mo on HNRobust-first computing: Demon Horde Sort (full version)
5 mo on HNORCA Sequencer Intro (Experimental Livecoding!)
4 mo on HNK Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016
3 mo on HNIntrinsic Gravity by Still
4 mo on HNSmoothLifeL
3 mo on HNASCII fluid dynamics -- IOCCC2012 endoh1.c
4 mo on HNHerbert Wolverson - Procedural Map Generation Techniques
4 mo on HNBytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs
4 mo on HNSurface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained
3 mo on HNAnagrams, but where you can break apart letters: "Anagraphs"
3 mo on HNChaos Theory - Awesome 64k Intro! [720p HD]
3 mo on HNHow I animate 3Blue1Brown | A Manim demo with Ben Sparks
3 mo on HNHow To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound
3 mo on HNNVScene 2015 Session: How to Create Content with Signed Distance Functions (Johann Korndörfer)
3 mo on HNAndrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014
3 mo on HNLearn to Paint with Mathematics
3 mo on HNSam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi
3 mo on HNSam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi
2 mo on HNGet Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018
3 mo on HNFarbrausch & Neuro - Masagin (HD Stereo)
2 mo on HNHartverdrahtet - Akronyme Analogiker | 4k Revision 2012
2 mo on HNLIVE Coding "Happy Jumping"
2 mo on HNGenerative AI for Krita - With ControlNet
2 mo on HNMarble Marcher - A Fractal Physics Game
2 mo on HN