#creativecoding

Learn Creative Coding (#47) - Cellular Automata: Wolfram's Elementary Rules We've spent the last fifteen episodes in shader land. SDFs, noise, raymarching, fractals, post-processing, textures, compute

Learn Creative Coding (#46) - Beyond Fragment Shaders: Compute and Particle Systems on GPU Everything we've built in the shader arc so far runs in one place: the fragment shader. One program that runs

Learn Creative Coding (#45) - Mini-Project: Generative Shader Artwork This is it. The mini-project that ties the entire shader arc together. Since episode 21 we've been building tools -- SDFs and shapes

Learn Creative Coding (#44) - Working with Textures in Shaders Everything we've done in shaders so far has been procedural. Every color, every pattern, every shape -- generated from math. Noise functions,

Learn Creative Coding (#43) - Post-Processing Effects We've been rendering scenes directly to the screen for the entire shader arc. Raymarched 3D worlds with Phong lighting and soft shadows (episodes 38-40),

Learn Creative Coding (#42) - Fractals: Julia Sets and Variations Last episode we built the Mandelbrot set from scratch. The core iteration -- z = z*z + c with z starting at zero and c being the pixel

Learn Creative Coding (#41) - Fractals: The Mandelbrot Set We've been doing 3D for three episodes now. Raymarching gave us spheres, boxes, ground planes, boolean operations, smooth blending, deformations,

Learn Creative Coding (#40) - Raymarching: Materials and Lighting We've been building 3D worlds from pure math for two episodes now. Episode 38 gave us the core raymarcher -- spheres, ground planes, Lambertian

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