Media
13 entries related to the media “Real-time Graphics”.
The site of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's project for turning astronomical research into images. It offers Mitaka, free software for travelling from Earth out to the large-scale structure of the universe, along with simulation-based films and VR works — reference material for visualising celestial motion and orbits.
A personal site collecting algorithm experiments and visual toys. Fractals, reaction–diffusion, chaos, the n-body problem, boids, the travelling salesman problem, Voronoi diagrams and more can be set in motion and explored in the browser.
An article listing signed distance functions for primitives such as spheres, boxes and tori, along with operations like union, subtraction, intersection and smooth blending — all with GLSL code. A reference dictionary for building solids from equations.
A browser-based globe that renders global wind, temperature, ocean currents, waves and other weather data as flowing streaks, with switchable projections and layers. Its way of drawing a vector field as countless moving particles carries straight over to visualising mathematical vector fields.
An interactive piece that redraws any closed shape — a freehand drawing, an uploaded image, or the outline of a country or city — with a chain of spinning circles. You can change the number of circles to see how the approximation improves, and display the spectrum of circle sizes and the breakdown into sine waves in x and y. Circles riding on circles is the same idea that drives spirograph curves.
The home of a program for drawing mathematical knots and links in three and four dimensions and reshaping them interactively, with a gallery of images made with it. Available for Windows, macOS and Linux — a tool for treating knots as closed curves to shape.
A collection of musical toys to play in the browser. Musical Spirograph turns a spirograph into musical patterns; others include pendulum waves, Polyrhythm with its polygons, Cellular Sequencer built on the Game of Life, and Wave Drawer for drawing a waveform and hearing it — many let you see and hear a mathematical mechanism at work.
Under the banner "Coding Adventures", this channel implements fluid simulation, ray tracing, terrain and planet generation and more from scratch. You see how physics and algorithms turn into images step by step, which makes the techniques easy to adopt.
Articles on computer graphics, mathematics, shaders and fractals. Its explanations of signed distance functions and raymarching are standard references for anyone drawing shapes with equations.
An open-source C++ toolkit for creative coding. It handles graphics, video, sound and sensor input, and is used to build large installations and performances.
A JavaScript library that brings the Processing approach to the web browser. It is designed to be accessible to artists, designers, educators and beginners, with an extensive reference and examples.
A flexible software sketchbook and language for learning to code within the visual arts. Started in 2001 by Casey Reas and Ben Fry and now stewarded by the Processing Foundation, it remains a classic entry point to generative art.
A node-based visual programming environment developed by Derivative in Toronto. It is widely used for real-time visuals, projection and sensor-driven interactive work.