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).
pointerpointer.com's use of voronoi, canvas, and javascript
Paul Irish explains how pointerpointer.com works.
sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!
A 2006 promotional video for sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!, a music software project that analyzes and reassembles sampled audio and video in real time, tied to themes of sampling and copyright.
Autechre - Gantz Graf (Official Music Video) 1080p HD
The official music video for Autechre's 'Gantz Graf', a dense, glitchy electronic track paired with abstract animated 3D visuals reportedly made by hand in 2002.
I Tried Turning Games Into Text
Acerola explores building a shader that turns games into ASCII art, walking through techniques such as brightness mapping and edge detection to see whether it looks good.
How life emerges from a simple particle motion law: Introducing the Primordial Particle System
Researchers from the Artificial Life Lab Graz introduce the Primordial Particle System, where a simple motion law for self-propelled particles produces cell-like structures that self-reproduce and show life cycles.
Bytebeat: Music from very short programs - the 3rd iteration
Viznut's third bytebeat video presents music generated by very short C programs and JavaScript expressions.
HOW TO DATAMOSH: PART 1
A how-to video on datamoshing, the glitch-art technique of removing keyframes so that motion data smears across video.
A$AP Mob - Yamborghini High (Official Video) ft. Juicy J
The official music video for A$AP Mob's Yamborghini High featuring Juicy J, known for heavy datamoshing and glitch effects with hue shifting.
Venetian Snares - Look (from Songs About My Cats 2001)
A short clip of Venetian Snares' track 'Look' from Songs About My Cats (2001), shown as a spectrogram.
epic conway's game of life
An animated, musical visualization of Conway's Game of Life showing patterns made in the Golly program.
[Equation] - Aphex Twin Spectrogram
A spectrogram analysis of Aphex Twin's track commonly called [Equation] from Windowlicker, rendered from a lossless version.
Emily Howell - Track 1
A short clip of a track from Emily Howell, a computer program by David Cope that composes classical-style music, performed by human players.
VIDEO ROOM 1000 COMPLETE MIX -- All 1000 videos seen in sequential order!
A condensed rendition of a project that re-uploaded one video to YouTube 1000 times, showing the accumulating compression artifacts.
Google Maps Hacks by Simon Weckert
An art project by Simon Weckert in which 99 smartphones pulled in a handcart create a fake traffic jam on Google Maps.
Laser Pong (my second laser projector videogame)
Brandon Thomas demos Laser Pong, a game he built on a laser projector and projected onto buildings around Atlanta.