PickVidsBest Creative coding & generative art Videos
The 63 Creative coding & generative art videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 8 introductory, 17 intermediate, 38 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Inigo Quilez, Demoscene High-Quality Videos (Annikras), Ville-Matias Heikkilä (viznut).
NVScene 2015 Session: How to Create Content with Signed Distance Functions (Johann Korndörfer)
Johann Korndorfer's NVScene 2015 talk on building content with signed distance functions.
Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014
Andrew Sorensen's OSCON 2014 keynote in which he live-codes generative music on stage using his Impromptu environment while narrating his computational and musical choices.
Learn to Paint with Mathematics
Inigo Quilez live-codes a painting using only mathematics in a shader, building it up step by step.
Sam Aaron live coding an ambient electro set w/ Sonic Pi
Sam Aaron live codes an ambient electronic set using Sonic Pi, the music programming environment he created.
Sam Aaron live coding a DJ set with Sonic Pi
A long live-coded DJ set in which Sam Aaron creates all the music in real time by writing code in his Sonic Pi system.
Get Ready to Rock with Sonic Pi - The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone • Sam Aaron • GOTO 2018
Sam Aaron, creator of Sonic Pi, gives a demo-heavy GOTO Chicago 2018 talk on live coding music.
Farbrausch & Neuro - Masagin (HD Stereo)
Masagin is a realtime demoscene production by Farbrausch and Neuro with music by paniq, using animated recursive SVG graphics made in Inkscape.
Hartverdrahtet - Akronyme Analogiker | 4k Revision 2012
Hartverdrahtet by Akronyme Analogiker, the winning PC 4k intro at Revision 2012.
LIVE Coding "Happy Jumping"
Inigo Quilez live-codes the "Happy Jumping" animated scene in a Shadertoy GLSL shader over about six hours.
Generative AI for Krita - With ControlNet
A short demo of an open-source Krita plugin that uses Stable Diffusion to generate and edit images in place.
Marble Marcher - A Fractal Physics Game
A demo of Marble Marcher, a game using a fractal physics engine and fully procedural ray-marched rendering.
Karl Sims - Evolved Virtual Creatures, Evolution Simulation, 1994
Karl Sims's 1994 demonstration of evolved virtual creatures: block-bodied creatures whose bodies and controllers are evolved through selection, mutation and recombination to swim, walk and compete.
Dan Tepfer: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
A Tiny Desk concert in which pianist Dan Tepfer plays with a Disklavier player piano driven by a program he wrote that responds to his playing.
Aphex Twin - T69 Collapse
The music video for Aphex Twin's T69 Collapse, directed by Weirdcore, with heavy strobing and glitchy audiovisual imagery.
The Drive Home - ShaderToy
A short ShaderToy piece by Martijn Steinrucken (The Art of Code) that renders rain on a windshield during a night drive, with blurred bokeh lights.
Making a heart with Maths
Inigo Quilez shows step by step how to build a simple heart shape from mathematics and shaders, with code on Shadertoy.
ShaderToy LiveCoding - The Drive Home - 1. Basic Setup
The first part of a ShaderToy live-coding series that lays the groundwork for The Drive Home, a rainy night-traffic shader.
Melt your circuit boards
mitxela shows his KiCad plugin that rounds PCB tracks to give circuit boards organic, melted-looking layouts instead of rigid geometric ones.
Alternate Reality Kit by Randall Smith at Xerox PARC 1986 (VPRI-0131)
A 12-minute demo of the Alternate Reality Kit, built by Randall Smith at Xerox PARC in 1986.
Deepest Mandelbrot Set Zoom Animation ever - a New Record! 10^275 (2.1E275 or 2^915)
A Mandelbrot set zoom animation reaching a magnification of about 2.1x10^275, claimed as the deepest at the time (January 2010).
Spaceballs - State of the Art - Amiga Demo (HD 50fps)
A recapture in 50fps HD of Spaceballs' 'State of the Art', an Amiga demo released at The Party 1992.
Journey on the Deep Dream
A six-minute journey through the layers of a neural network using Deep Dream, with each frame fed back into the network starting from random noise and the targeted layer changing every four seconds.
ants simulation
A one-minute visualization of a simulated ant colony in which ants follow pheromone trails, with the source code on GitHub.
Oscilloscope Music - Planets
Planets is a track from the audiovisual album Oscilloscope Music, in which the audio signal drives an analog oscilloscope directly.