#creativecoding

Learn Creative Coding (#39) - Raymarching: Boolean Operations and Morphing Last episode we built our first raymarched 3D scenes. A sphere on a ground plane, lit with Lambertian diffuse, orbiting cameras,

Learn Creative Coding (#38) - Raymarching: 3D Worlds from Math Everything we've done in shaders so far has been flat. Beautiful, sure -- noise landscapes, feedback spirals, color palettes, signed distance

Learn Creative Coding (#37) - Color Manipulation in Shaders Way back in episode 7 we explored color theory -- hue, saturation, lightness, complementary harmonies, analogous palettes. We mixed colors in

Learn Creative Coding (#36) - Shader Feedback Loops and Trails Every shader we've written so far has been stateless. Each frame starts fresh. The fragment shader runs, every pixel gets a color based on

Learn Creative Coding (#35) - Noise on the GPU Back in episode 12 we built Perlin noise from scratch in JavaScript. We wrote the permutation table, the gradient vectors, the fade function, the interpolation.

Learn Creative Coding (#34) - Shader Patterns: Stripes, Grids, and Repetition Last episode we drew circles, boxes, rounded rectangles, and weird blobby eye things using signed distance functions. We had

Learn Creative Coding (#33) - Drawing Shapes with Signed Distance Functions Last episode we built the bridge between JavaScript and GLSL -- uniforms. Resolution, time, mouse position. The three values

Learn Creative Coding (#32) - Shader Uniforms and Time Back in episode 21 we had our first taste of shaders -- compiled a fragment shader, drew a gradient, made some concentric rings chase the mouse around.

Learn Creative Coding (#31) - Creative Coding as a Practice Thirty episodes. We went from "what is a canvas?" to building mint-ready generative NFT collections with seeded PRNGs, composition

Learn Creative Coding (#30) - Mini-Project: Generative NFT Collection This is it. The big one. Everything from Phase 4 -- seeds, composition, typography, texture, color palettes, blockchain output -- comes

Learn Creative Coding (#29) - Building for the Blockchain: Output as SVG and PNG We've spent this whole phase building a generative art toolkit. Seeded randomness in episode 24, composition algorithms

Learn Creative Coding (#28) - Color Palettes from Data and Algorithms We covered color theory back in episode 7. RGB, HSL, complementary colors, the 60-30-10 rule. That was foundations. But for generative

Learn Creative Coding (#27) - Texture and Depth: Paper, Grain, and Hatching Digital art often looks too clean. Too perfect. You generate a gorgeous composition with your seed system from episode 24, lay

Learn Creative Coding (#26) - Generative Typography Letters are shapes. Fonts are systems of shapes. And when you treat typography as raw visual material rather than just "text to read," incredible

Learn Creative Coding (#25) - Composition Algorithms: Rule-Based Design Last episode we built the seed toolkit -- mulberry32 PRNG, utility functions for picking, shuffling, weighted choices, gaussian

Learn Creative Coding (#24) - Seed-Based Art: Reproducible Randomness Last episode we talked about what makes art generative -- the spectrum between order and chaos, thinking in layers, constraints as

Learn Creative Coding (#23) - What Makes Art "Generative"? Welcome to Phase 4. We've spent 22 episodes building a toolkit -- particles, noise, physics, shaders, audio reactivity, recording,

Learn Creative Coding (#22) - Mini-Project: Audio Visualizer Phase 3 finale. We've learned easing, state machines, physics, audio analysis, recording, and shaders. Time to smash the best parts together

Learn Creative Coding (#21) - Shaders: A First Taste of GLSL Everything we've built so far in this series runs on the CPU. Every pixel we've drawn, every particle we've simulated, every noise value we've

Learn Creative Coding (#20) - Recording and Exporting: GIF, PNG Sequence, Video You've built some beautiful things over the last ten episodes. A particle galaxy that reacts to your mouse. Physics simulations