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Re:Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL by joenot443 on Monday April 03, 2023 @06:38AM (#35421245)
You probably won’t find exactly the video you’re looking for, but if you’re interested in creative coding and shader based animation, IQ (Shadertoy author) has some amazing videos on his YouTube channel. Shaders are tricky!

It’s a deep and fascinating development world, one much less thoroughly documented than the world of web apps. Good luck!

Re:Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL by satao on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:19AM (#35421636)
Hey, could you post the link of the channel you mean? Looking for 'shadertoy' in Youtube brought me only a playlist by 'The Art of Code'. Is that the channel you mean?
Re:Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL by pfarrell on Monday April 03, 2023 @07:45AM (#35421855)
IQ= Inigo Quilez. His work is a good entry point.

https://iquilezles.org/

Re:Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL by CSSer on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:31AM (#35423244)
I've only only lightly dipped my toes into the webGL landscape, but I can definitely vouch for this man. I love the way he explains things. He's like the Carl Sagan of WebGL. I'll see if I can dig up a couple resources from my own foray drop them in this comment below.

EDIT: here are the links as promised.

1. https://thebookofshaders.com/ (mentioned above, I think)

2. https://threejs.org/docs/ (of course)

3. https://docs.pmnd.rs/react-three-fiber/getting-started/intro... (optional; good for React and those comfortable for maybe don't dive right in until you get a good grasp on Three.js)

4. https://threejs-journey.com/ (a paid course with some good intro lessons as freebies)

Hope this helps!

Re:Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL by andnand on Monday April 03, 2023 @10:33AM (#35424255)
Theres also library using Svelte and threejs(https://svelthree.dev/). Its newer but worth checking out.

Also, threejs journey is worth it. Lots of great content.

Re:Show HN: Unknown Pleasures, a tiny web experiment with WebGL by joenot443 on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:32PM (#35426780)
https://www.youtube.com/@InigoQuilez/videos is what I'm talking about. It's not necessarily a from-zero introduction, but it's a nice resource.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ifChJ0nJfM is probably the the most beginner friendly.

https://thebookofshaders.com/ is another great place to start.

Good luck and enjoy!