Learn to build on it.

Python, your own nodes, extensions, shaders and the command line. Every tutorial ends with something running.

5 tutorials8 demosevery one stands alone

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Tutorials

Pick something to make.

Code you can see on screen: one line of Python that spins a donut, a Shadertoy with sliders of its own, a torus recolored in its shader, a script that builds a ring of spheres, and a render made from the terminal. Pick any of them, in any order.

The donut a moment apart: each line of Python turns it and swells it as the seconds go by.

First steps8 min

Spin a donut with one line of Python

An orange donut that tumbles end over end and breathes in and out, moved by two short Python expressions typed straight into its settings.

Add a donut and color it
Turn it with one line of Python
Make it breathe with another
Watch it move

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Five glowing ribbons swaying across the screen, drawn by the shader you paste in.

Getting going12 min

Paste in a Shadertoy and give it sliders

Glowing ribbons of light that sway across the screen, from a Shadertoy style shader you paste in, with Speed and Glow sliders you add yourself.

Start a picture
Add a Custom shader
Paste the Shadertoy
Add Speed and Glow sliders

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The Twisted Torus after three changed lines: teal and violet, with three times as many stripes.

Getting going10 min

Recolor a twisting torus in its shader

The Twisted Torus demo repainted in teal and violet stripes, with more and thinner stripes, by changing three lines of its material shader while it runs.