Creative Coding & Generative Art Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#6

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

GDC Festival of Gaming

“I recommend this talk to anyone who is interested in the details and history of working on limited colour palette games!”

13 HN recommenders · 2018–2026

demo#65

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

Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras)

“It demonstrated that 4k was more than sufficient for impressive effects and music”

7 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

tutorial#108

Painting a Character with Maths

Inigo Quilez

“he's a master of this stuff and a great explainer.”

13 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

talk#337

The Art of Code - Dylan Beattie

NDC Conferences

“one of the most captivating tech talks I've ever seen.”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#347

Functional Composition - Chris Ford

ClojureTV

“Recommend this talk that made Music 'click' for me.”

6 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

tutorial#392

I painted a Landscape with Mathematics

Inigo Quilez

“My favorite video of his is Painting a Landscape with Maths.”

7 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

demo#410

Elevated by RGBA and TBC

BUTTONTANG

“you'll have a hard time believing it if you haven't seen it yet”

7 HN recommenders · 2009–2025

talk#419

Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - XOXO Festival (2014)

XOXO Festival

“Darius Kazemi's iconic 2014[1] talk”

7 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

demo#487

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

Brian Peiris

“this was an impressive demo of someone coding their environment in the Rift.”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2020

documentary#494

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

Vakondok (Moleman)

“Both are expertly crafted and fun documentaries”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

demo#575

Coding Adventure: Ant and Slime Simulations

Sebastian Lague

“reminded how beautiful coding can be”

6 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

demo#586

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

Dave Ackley

“it's certainly esoteric, but has some extremely important properties.”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2023

tutorial#648

ORCA Sequencer Intro (Experimental Livecoding!)

Allieway Audio

“It is by far the best video overview of the system that I am aware of.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

talk#663

K Lars Lohn - Keynote - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

“It's a beautiful talk about music, programming, biking, and life”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2021

demo#990

Intrinsic Gravity by Still

TiXL

“It's lots of different scenes that transition beautifully from one to another”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

demo#1056

SmoothLifeL

Tim Hutton

“Must see evolution of GOL”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2022

demo#1083

ASCII fluid dynamics -- IOCCC2012 endoh1.c

Yusuke Endoh

“truly a work of art”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#1095

Herbert Wolverson - Procedural Map Generation Techniques

Roguelike Celebration

“My favorite from that collection on map generation is by Herbert Wolverson”

4 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

demo#1252

Bytebeat: Experimental music from very short C programs

Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut)

“The video that started it all”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

explainer#1255

Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering Explained

runevision

“a 4-days old video related to dithering which is really worth watching.”

3 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

explainer#1416

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

suckerpinch

“Definitely give it a watch.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

demo#1690

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

Lounger

“probably the coolest and most impressive one”

3 HN recommenders · 2011–2024

demo#1821

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

3Blue1Brown

“I want to highlight the demo video [0], where Grant explains how he works with Manim.”

3 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

tutorial#1825

How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound

Jellybean Fenderson

“This was amazing to me: How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

talk#1828

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

NVScene

“this is an excellent talk on the subject”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2018

talk#1869

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

O'Reilly

“This video of one of his presentations on Impromptu is one of my all-time favorite programming talks”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

tutorial#1888

Learn to Paint with Mathematics

Inigo Quilez

“Watch "Learn to paint with mathematics" to see a simple shader being built gradually”

3 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

demo#1992

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

Sam Aaron

“Sam Aaron is the guy behind the project, he does a lot of ambient type stuff”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

demo#2025

Sam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi

Sam Aaron

“The most impressive thing you can do with it is live coding”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

talk#2060

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

GOTO Conferences

“There's also a _great_ talk from the creator (Sam Aaron) on Sonic Pi”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

music#2287

Farbrausch & Neuro - Masagin (HD Stereo)

Leonard Ritter

“features animated, recursive SVGs with antialiasing and motion blur at high rez and high frame rate.”

3 HN recommenders · 2010–2023

demo#2357

Hartverdrahtet - Akronyme Analogiker | 4k Revision 2012

Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras)

“So then I'm going to post my favorite 4k [1], which even if you ignore the file size, is just a very cool use of fractals.”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2024

tutorial#2420

LIVE Coding "Happy Jumping"

Inigo Quilez

“is fantastic, yes it's five hours but worth it.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022

demo#2462

Generative AI for Krita - With ControlNet

Acly

“the video is mindblowing”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

demo#2847

Marble Marcher - A Fractal Physics Game

CodeParade

“He has a YouTube channel as well”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

demo#2979

Karl Sims - Evolved Virtual Creatures, Evolution Simulation, 1994

MediaArtTube

“I remember being obsessed with that paper”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

demo#3109

Dan Tepfer: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

NPR Music

“Also check out Dan Tepfer [1] who is doing amazing work with an algorithmic approach to reactive live performances”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

music#3111

Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse

Aphex Twin

“check out the music video for T69 Collapse by Aphex Twin (photosensitive epillepsy warning)”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

demo#3157

The Drive Home - ShaderToy

The Art of Code

“He does incredible work with shaders and explains them in very clear detail.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

tutorial#3211

Making a heart with Maths

Inigo Quilez

“is a great introduction for beginners and younger people”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

tutorial#3261

ShaderToy LiveCoding - The Drive Home - 1. Basic Setup

The Art of Code

“The accompanying video tutorial[2] is super interesting too”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

demo#3275

Melt your circuit boards

mitxela

“mitxela did a great video on this topic recently and wrote a plugin for kicad to make the regular geometric layouts more organic.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

demo#3596

Alternate Reality Kit by Randall Smith at Xerox PARC 1986 (VPRI-0131)

Yoshiki Ohshima (大島芳樹)

“here's a demo of something called "Alternate Reality Kit"[2] back in 1986. Brace yourselves.”

1 HN recommenders · 2018–2021

demo#3753

Deepest Mandelbrot Set Zoom Animation ever - a New Record! 10^275 (2.1E275 or 2^915)

Orson Wang

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2025

demo#3872

Spaceballs - State of the Art - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)

RetroDemoScene

“That whole thing fits on 880 kB floppy and it's rendered realtime.”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

demo#4200

Journey on the Deep Dream

Roger Luedecke

“are excellent examples.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2017

demo#4263

ants simulation

Hugh Lomas

“Take a look at this visualization”

1 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

music#4293

Oscilloscope Music - Planets

Jellybean Fenderson

“these crazy fools are making oscilloscope music, where the song itself is the visual.”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2021