{"id":78,"date":"2011-12-21T02:20:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T02:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/?p=78"},"modified":"2011-12-21T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T02:26:10","slug":"live-coding-and-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lousodrome.net\/blog\/light\/2011\/12\/21\/live-coding-and-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Live coding and apples"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a recent trend of coding with an overlay editor on top of the live result, changing as the code gets written and modified. I suspect it originates<\/a> on one hand from the work of the folks at Sexy Visuals<\/a> and some of the videos I\u00f1igo Quilez<\/a> has been publishing demonstrating some concepts<\/a>, including a basic raytracer in less than half an hour<\/a>. And on the other hand, on Shader Toy<\/a> (made by the same usual suspect), a web page using WebGL to allow fast GLSL shader prototyping in a browser.<\/p>\n

It was only a question of time before someone would merge both concepts<\/a>. Thus Ricardo Cabello<\/a> (often known as Mr Doob) sparked off<\/a> a lot of effervescence when he published his GLSL Sandbox<\/a>. People would try many things, give feedback and advices, someone would quickly come up with a gallery<\/a>… But after various toy experiments by various people, IQ would come back and make waves with his procedural apple<\/a>. He also published another live coding video<\/a>, showing how it was made.<\/p>\n