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ShaderToy LiveCoding - The Drive Home - 1. Basic Setup

The Art of Code · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Creative coding & generative artComputer graphics & rendering

What it is

The first part of a ShaderToy live-coding series that lays the groundwork for The Drive Home, a rainy night-traffic shader. It covers basic setup and builds toward rain and bokeh effects.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended in shader and rain-simulation threads as an engaging tutorial from a well-liked graphics-programming channel.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “The accompanying video tutorial[2] is super interesting too”

    Video tutorial for the Drive Home rain effect

    weinzierl, 2020-07 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: WebGL simulation of rainy autumn day/evening”

  2. “I've always enjoyed watching The Art of Code[1]”

    Shader coding videos from The Art of Code

    FjordWarden, 2025-04 · Recommendation · in “Shadertoys Ported to Rust GPU”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: shadertoy, glsl, rain effect, webgl, live coding

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